Resumen

CATANI, Júlia. Hysteria, somatoform disorders and somatic symptoms: the multiple settings of psychic suffering inside the classification systems. J. psicanal. [online]. 2014, vol.47, n.86, pp. 115-134. ISSN 0103-5835.

This article recovers the history of hysteria and the scientific attempts to study it. Thus follows the investments made over time to overcome hysterical suffering. The successes seem limited and the symptoms continue to manifest, shaped by different socio-historical conditions. The central object of this analysis is to explore the settings of hysteria within the classification systems. The text resorts to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health (DSM), also considering the first Freudian definitions of hysteria. The new classifications, such as hysterical neurosis, psychosomatic disorder, somatoform disorders and somatic symptoms express the efforts to circumscribe the specificity of this malaise. The definitions try to cater to the possibility of more precise interventions for the treatment of the symptoms, but also indicate a new fragmentation and dispersion of perception of the modalities of suffering.

Palabras clave : hysteria; ICD; DSM; psychoanalysis; psychiatry.

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