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Disappearance of Hysteria(Conversion Disorder) and the Evolutionary Brain Discord Reaction Theory

히스테리아(전환장애)의 소실과 진화적 뇌신경 부조화 반응 가설

  • Song, Ji Young (Department Psychiatry, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine)
  • 송지영 (경희대학교 의과대학 정신건강의학교실)
  • Received : 2016.01.13
  • Accepted : 2016.04.30
  • Published : 2016.06.30
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Abstract

Objectives : The author tried to find out reasons why and how hysteria(and conversion disorder) patient numbers, which were so prevalent even a few decades ago, have decreased and the phenotype of symptoms have changed. Methods : The number of visiting patients diagnosed with conversion disorder and their phenotype of symptoms were investigated through chart reviews in a psychiatric department of a University hospital for the last 12 years. Additionally, the characteristics of conversion disorder patients visiting the emergency room for last 2 years were also reviewed. Those results were compared with previous research results even if it seemed to be an indirect comparisons. The research relied on Briquet P. and Charcot JM's established factors of the vicissitudes of hysteria(and conversion disorder) which has been the framework for more than one hundred and fifty years since hysteria has been investigated. Results : The author found decreased numbers and changes of the phenotype of the hysteria patients(and conversion disorder) over the last several decades. The decreased numbers and changes of the symptoms of those seemed to be partly due to several issues. These issues include the development of the diagnostic techniques to identify organic causes of hysteria, repeated changes to the symptom descriptions and diagnostic classification, changes of the brain nervous functions in response to negative emotions, and the influence of human evolution. Conclusions : The author proposed that the evolutionary brain discord reaction theory explains the causes of disappearance of and changes to symptoms of hysteria(conversion disorder). Most patients with hysteria(conversion disorder) have been diagnosed in the neurological department. For providing more appropriate treatment and minimizing physical disabilities to those patients, psychiatrists should have a major role in cooperating not only with primary care physicians but with neurologists. The term 'hysteria' which had been used long ago should be revived and used as a term to describe diseases such as somatic symptom disorder, functional neurological symptoms, somatization, and somatoform disorders, all of which represent almost the same vague concept as hysteria.

연구목적 19세기말부터 근래까지 정신과 및 응급실에서 많이 볼 수 있었던 히스테리아(전환장애)환자를 이제는 더 이상 보기 어려워졌다. 이러한 현상의 원인을 규명해보고자 하였다. 방 법 정신과 외래 및 입원환자의 수가 지난 12년 동안 과연 얼마나 되는지 병록지를 조사하고 증상의 변화, 증상지속기간을 조사하였으며, 지난 2년간 응급실에서 정신과진료에서 본 전환장애 환자수를 조사하였다. 이 결과를 과거의 연구 결과와 비교해보았다. 이를 토대로 히스테리아(전환장애)의 소실 및 증상 변화의 원인을 찾아보았다. 결 과 히스테리아(전환장애)의 환자수가 현저히 줄어들었으며 그 증상도 변화된 것을 확인하였다. 그리고 이러한 변화는 불과 수십 년 사이에 일어났다. 그 간의 연구결과를 통하여 신경질환 진단법의 발달, 진단명과 증상기재 용어의 변화, 감정자극에 따른 뇌기능의 변환, 그리고 진화론적 관점 등이 이 병의 감소 내지는 증상의 변화를 설명할 수 있다. 결 론 히스테리아(전환장애)의 소실 및 증상의 변화가 불과 수십 년 동안에 일어날 수 있는 것은 진화적으로 변화하는 뇌와 환경 사이의 부조화에 따른 충격이 반응으로 나타난다는 가설을 통하여 이유의 많은 부분이 설명된다. 그리고 비록 과거의 히스테리아(전환장애) 환자수는 줄었으나 그 모습이 변화된 환자수는 결코 적지 않다. 정신과의사는 이들 환자에게 적절한 치료를 제공해 주기 위해서 일차 진료의사와 신경과의사와 협동해야 하며 주도적인 역할이 필요하다. 현재 사용하는 진단명이나 증상 기재 용어는 그 기본 내용이나 개념이 일부 변화했을 뿐, 뇌기능의 장애와 연관된 원인 불명의 신체증상이라는 점에서 달라진 바가 없다고 생각한다. 이에 저자는 과거의 용어인 히스테리아(전환장애)를 부활시키는 것이 타당하다는 점을 설명하였다.

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