Motor symptoms without a discernible organic basis, or "hysteria," still be a treatment challenge. The worst fear of most patients is being told that their symptoms have a psychiatric etiology. These U.K. researchers have used that fear in developing a strategic intervention whereby patients and their families are informed that those with organic disease will recover fully with behavioral treatment, whereas lack of recovery will prove psychiatric etiology.
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Motor symptoms without a discernible organic basis, or "hysteria," still be a treatment challenge. The worst fear of most patients is being told that their symptoms have a psychiatric etiology. These U.K. researchers have used that fear in developing a strategic intervention whereby patients and their families are informed that those with organic disease will recover fully with behavioral treatment, whereas lack of recovery will prove psychiatric etiology.
