From hysterical psychosis to reactive dissociative psychosis
Journal of Traumatic Stress 1993 Onno Van der Hart, Eliezer Witztum, Barbara Friedman
AbstractIn this paper Reactive Dissociative Psychosis (RDP) is seen as a post‐traumatic stress response and as a subcategory of Brief Reactive Psychosis (BRP). A review of the literature and the evolution of RDP from Hysteria and Hysterical Psychosis are given. Issue is taken with defining the duration of BRP as “Brief.” The authors argue that long‐standing psychotic symptoms may be...