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Science - Psychology / Occult science | | French term or phrase: la déviation vers des manifestations hystériformes | -> The context: one person conducting a session, transmits something to a group during this session. Doing a certain exercise (which is referred to as l'exercice de concentration sur le point oscillant) after the transmission, prevents the 'la déviation vers des manifestations hystériformes'.
-> The sentence where this expression is used:
"Le fait de pratiquer l'exercice de concentration sur le point oscillant peu de temps après le passage de l'officiant éliminera la déviation vers des manifestations hystériformes, libération d'impulsions d'origine organique, qui n'ont aucun rapport avec le développement spirituel." |
| | | [prevents] people being sidetracked by hysterical outbreaks | Explanation:
I think this is essentially what it means. I presume it is trying to keep people focused, stopping them wandering off in uncontrolled visualisations.
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Note added at 25 mins (2008-10-16 18:05:53 GMT)
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Thank you. Maybe someone will find a better way of expressing it. I guess it depends on the date of the text. If it is referring to Charcot-esque experimentation then hysteria had a precise meaning at that time, but if more modern, then hysteria has a much looser meaning.
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Note added at 38 mins (2008-10-16 18:17:54 GMT)
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Prof Charcot worked around the turn of the century at La Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris and did research on hysteria, but in this case that would obviously be too early. Then people thought hysteria was a woman's disease and related to the womb. Clearly people do not believe that any longer and it just means that people are out of control.
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Thanks for the points, Andy. |
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 Helen Shiner
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Local time: 19:54
| Grading comment I ended up using "to prevent the deviation towards hysteric outbreaks; the release of impulses that are organic in basis...".
Thanks for all suggestions!
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3 mins confidence:   tendency/evolution to hysteria or hysteric manifestations
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It was different and it affected other personalities, ties, personalities who nowadays hardly would have a tendency toward hysteria and psychogenic ...
ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/1/42 -
In modern psychology and psychiatry, hysteria is a feature of hysterical disorders in which a patient experiences physical symptoms that have a ...
www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard
Thus, the orality often noted in the hysteric (Marmor, 1953) is due to the mouth ..... The lability which these patients show in their ability to switch ...
www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=IJP.060.0501A /transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/hyste... - 49k -
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or manifestation of hysteria
.. Sybil asked him if he wanted her to switch personalities, "to be Helen. ... Spiegel hold that MPD is essentially a manifestation of hysteria--that is, ...
www.aei.org/news/newsID.17181/news_detail.asp - 86k -
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Asker: Thanks for all the references.
I'm certain the author does not refer to a disease or a disorder, more to a 'random disperse of attention/mental energy'.
In "hysteric manifestations", the word 'manifestations' gives me an empty feeling... I'd like a more solid expression.
The 'tendency to' feels satisfactory to me. I appreciate your contribution.
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| Oct 27, 2008 - Changes made by Helen Shiner: | | Edited KOG entry | Andy Tolle's old entry - "la déviation vers des manifestations hystériformes" => "the deviation towards hysteric outbreaks" |
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