HYSTERICAL TRAITS IN RELATION TO RELIGION.

Apparently obsolete and carrying a rather historical than a clinical importance, mainly because it was split by modern literature between several diagnostical categories that make it less stigmatizing, but more difficult to understand in its inherent complexity, the concept of hysteria defines a sum of signs and symptoms, both mental and physical, closely related to the psychopathological manifestations and the behavioral echo of some specific disharmonious personality traits. The closest personality disorder to hysteria is the Hystrionic PD, but the overlap of the two entities is just a partial one and it cannot explain the hole hysterical phenomenology. The purpose of this article is to analyze the existent literature resources for a possible link between the dimensional features of hysterical personalities and religiosity, as well as the way in which the dynamics of spiritual life is impacted by the pathological personality traits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]