A Case of Hysterical Visual Disturbance

ABSTRACT

It is reported the fact that there is high incidence of conversion hysteria in Korea compared with other country. Many authors has stressed the importence of the possibity of hysteria when the patient complained of visual disturbance, visual field change and ocular discomfortness without any organic change of the eye. Author presented a case of conversion hysteria, 13years old male with chief complain of sudden severe visual disturbance, concentric constriction of the periperal visual field change and pseudomyopIa. He had treated at other eye clinics with the diagnosis of pseudomyopia or optic neuritis without improvement of ocular abnormalities over a year. Every efforts such as corrective glasses, systemic administration of steroids were failed. Finally author consulted this patient with the impression of conversion hysteria to the psychiatry department. All of ocular abnormalities were completly recorvered after treatment at the psychiatry department.