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Psychiatric Services, VOL. 25, No. 1

Article | January 01, 1974

Organic Illness in a Patient With Hysterical Personality Features: A Case Report

Fred H. Herring

Psychiatric Services 1974; doi:

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Clinical and Counseling Psychology Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Denver, Colorado

1974 by the American Psychiatric Association

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A patient was referred for psychotherapy to help alleviate two problems, a period of amnesia and a neurological syndrome that was considered to be functional. The patient's amnesia responded well to hypnosis. The neurological symptoms were later found to be organic and were relieved by surgery. The lesson for the psychotherapist is that a patient with obvious functional symptoms might have obscure organic ones as well.

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