Abstract
Recent hysteria is not a disease. Its manifestations represent the pathological exaggeration of a normal protective mechanism. By this mechanism otherwise well-adjusted individuals are enabled to gain time when a sudden reverse of fortune or an overwhelmingly difficult decision presents itself. Its purpose is to ease the blow and thus to prevent that paralysis of effective response which may result from the too sudden realization of the full implication of a situation.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
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11 articles.
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