Definition of Anxiety hysteria

1. Noun. A form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis.

Generic synonyms: Hysteria, Hysterical Neurosis

Medical Definition of Anxiety hysteria

1. Hysteria characterised by manifest anxiety. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anxiety Hysteria

anviling
anvilled
anvillike
anvilling
anvils
anviltop
anviltops
anxieties
anxietolytic
anxietude
anxiety
anxiety attack
anxiety disorder
anxiety disorders
anxiety dream
anxiety hysteria (current term)
anxiety neurosis
anxiety reaction
anxiety syndrome
anxiety tension state
anxio-
anxiogenic
anxiolysis
anxiolytic
anxiolytic drug
anxiolytically
anxiolytics
anxious
anxious(p)
anxious delirium

Literary usage of Anxiety hysteria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Morbid Fears and Compulsions: Their Psychology and Psychoanalytic Treatment by Horace Westlake Frink (1918)
"anxiety hysteria is the commonest of all the psychoneuroses. It may occur at any time of life, and is common in childhood, while the compulsion neuroses ..."

2. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"anxiety hysteria.—anxiety hysteria, as the name indicates, ... In anxiety hysteria the affect remains in the mental sphere, producing there various phobias. ..."

3. The Elements of Practical Psycho-analysis by Paul Bousfield (1922)
"Indeed, one might almost state that the anxiety neurosis is included in the anxiety hysterias; the chief difference being that the anxiety hysteria has at ..."

4. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1918)
"The symptoms of anxiety-hysteria (phobias, etc.) are not only capable of a further psychological analysis, but cannot be conceived in any other way; ..."

5. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1913)
"Neurotic Anxiety (Anxiety-Dream, Anxiety-Hysteria, Phobia). Concerning the Psychoses. Since the " Studien uber Hysteric " which Freud published in ..."

6. Freud's Theories of the Neuroses by Edward E. Hitschmann (1917)
"Neurotic Anxiety (Anxiety-Dream, Anxiety- Hysteria, Phobia). Concerning the Psychoses. SINCE the "Studien über Hysterie" which Freud published in ..."

7. Therapeutic Gazette (1917)
"By anxiety-hysteria is meant the condition of dread, anxiety, fear; this being due to some ... Under the Anxiety-Hysteria are the phobias and obsessions. ..."

8. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"According to Frink the manifestation of an anxiety hysteria is a morbid fear and the ... Stuttering may be considered a manifestation of anxiety hysteria. ..."

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