Question

Charcot often saw hysteric patients who had lost or had altered sensation in part of the body. It seemed to Charcot that because the same result occurred in the one case by the simple procedure of hypnotic induction and suggestion and in the second case as a part of a neurotic predisposition to hysteria,________.

a.hysterical patients had developed an exceptional ability to follow suggestions and to mimic neurological symptoms

b.it was not necessarily true that an underlying process was responsible for both

c.suggestion produced changes in neurological processes in the patient

d.the underlying processes must be identical

e.Only A and B

Answer 1

Ans.e

Charcot developed an opinion that hysterical patients had developed an exceptional ability to follow suggestions and to mimic neurological symptoms but it was not necessarily true that an underlying process was responsible for both.