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The article discusses the diagnosis of acute and chronic hysteria. Under the study, seventeen patients with conversion hysteria, which were referred by physicians from three hospitals in Heidelberg, Germany, were studied after the remission of the conversion symptoms. Subjects were examined using a silver/silver chloride electrodes that were attached to their left palm. The patients' skin resistance, heart rate and frontalis electromyogram were also measured. They were also asked to fill up the Eysenck Personality Inventory and Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale. On the basis of psychophysiological and biographical grounds, patients were divided into two groups, the chronic and acute group. The clinical results of the study are discussed.