Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- SECTION I History -- Charcot and Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Freud and Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Military and Mass Hysteria -- The History of Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- SECTION II Phenomenology: Neurology -- General Overview of Psychogenic Movement Disorders: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Prognosis -- Psychogenic Tremor and Shaking -- The Phenomenology of Startle, Latah, and Related Conditions -- Psychogenic Dystonia and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy -- Psychogenic Parkinsonism -- Psychogenic Gait: An Example of Deceptive Signaling -- Paroxysmal Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Treatment and Outcome of Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures -- Functional Paralysis and Sensory Disturbance -- SECTION III Phenomenology: Psychiatry -- An Overview of the Psychiatric Approach to Conversion Disorder -- The Role of Personality in Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Dissociation and Conversion in Psychogenic Illness -- Anxiety Disorders and Abnormal Movements: A Darkly Interface -- Depression -- Malingering/ Münchausen: Factitious and Somatoform Disorders in Neurology and Clinical Medicine -- Treatment of Hypochondriasis and Psychogenic Movement Disorders: Focus on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy -- Somatization Disorder: Briquet's Hysteria -- SECTION IV Pathophysiology -- Voluntary and Involuntary Movements in Humans -- The Neurophysiology of Voluntary Movement in Nonhuman Primates: Accumulator Models of Decision and Action in Relation to Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Consciousness -- The Cognitive Executive Is Implicated in the Maintenance of Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Neuroimaging of Hysteria -- SECTION V Diagnostic Techniques -- Hypnosis and Psychogenic Movement Disorders.

The Sodium Amytal and Benzodiazepine Interview and Its Possible Application in Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Role of Anesthesia in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Clinical Neurophysiology of Myoclonus -- The Diagnosis and Physiology of Psychogenic Tremor -- Natural History of Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- SECTION VI Treatment -- Treatment of Conversion Disorder -- Treatment of Psychogenic Movement Disorder: Psychotropic Medications -- Rehabilitation in Patients with Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Psychogenic Injuries and the Law -- Therapeutic Approaches to Psychogenic Movement Disorders -- Abstracts -- Index.