单词 | pithiatism |
释义 | pithiatismn. Psychology. Now chiefly historical. A form of hysteria or hysterical symptom which is curable by persuasive suggestion; the treatment of hysteria by this means. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychoneurosis > hysteria mother?c1450 suffocation of the womb, matrix, motherc1550 strangulation of the matrix or womb1601 hysterica passio1603 suffocation (also rising, fit) of the mother1615 hysteric passion1655 tarantism1656 mother-fit1657 rising of the matrix1660 hysteria1757 tarantulism1774 pithiatism1910 mothersickness1993 1910 Lippincott's New Med. Dict. 740/2 Pithiatism, = Hysteria. (Babinski.) 1913 E. Jones in W. A. White & S. E. Jelliffe Mod. Treatm. Nerv. & Mental Dis. I. viii. 370 Treatment by means of persuasion he [sc. Babinski] calls ‘pithiatism’. 1988 Psychiatric Med. 6 17 Pithiatism..refers to a condition which is caused by suggestion and cured by persuasion... Pithiatism as a theoretical basis for hysteria has been largely overlooked as a tenable hypothesis. 2000 Harvard Mental Health Let. (Nexis) 1 July In 1901..the French neurologist Joseph Babinski proposed a new and much narrower definition of hysteria, calling it ‘pithiatism’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1910 |
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