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pithiatism Psychol.|ˈpɪθɪətɪz(ə)m|
[ad. F. pithiatisme (J. Babinski 1901, in Revue Neurologique IX. 1079), f. Gr. πειθ-ώ persuasion + ἰατ-ός curable: see -ism.]
A type of hysteria thought to be amenable to and curable by suggestion. So pithiˈatic a.
1910Lippincott's New Med. Dict. 740/2 Pithiatism, = Hysteria. (Babinski.) Ibid., Pithiatic. 1913E. Jones in White & Jelliffe Mod. Treatm. Nervous & Mental Dis. I. viii. 370 Babinski attempts to divide verbal suggestions into those that are unreasonable..and those that are reasonable and beneficial... Treatment by means of persuasion he calls ‘pithiatism’. 1918J. D. Rolleston tr. Babinski's Hysteria or Pithiatism p. xv, Among the various nervous phenomena observed in the neurology of war it is most important to distinguish hysterical or pithiatic disorders. 1930P. D. Kerrison Dis. of Ear (ed. 4) xxii. 551 Pithiatism implies not only the possibility of cure by persuasion, but also the fact that the disorder may in some degree be called into being by suggestion. Ibid., Pithiatic deafness..is at its inception a veritable deafness, the inevitable sequence of a shock to the perceptive labyrinth, which could have had no other result. 1975Y. Pelicier in J. G. Howells World Hist. Psychiatry iv. 131 Babinski (1901) proposed the name of ‘pithiatism’ to designate a special condition, where suggestion is able to produce or suppress clinical symptoms. |