Hysteria to conversion disorders: Babinski's contributions

The main objective of this paper is to present the importance of hysteria on Babinski's oeuvre, and the conceptions of pithiatism from Babinski until the one of conversion disorder. Babinski gave a mental basis for hysteria in the place of Charcot's encephalopatic one, and several importan...

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Main Authors: Marleide da Mota Gomes, Eliasz Engelhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2014-04-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2014000400318&lng=en&tlng=en
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