Clinical genealogical research on hysterical psychopathy
Fil'ts, A.O.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 87(7): 1082-1086
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 3673392 Document Number: 302617
Thirty probands with the diagnosis of hysterical psychopathy were studied using clinical and genealogic techniques. An analysis of the obtained data made with the help of modern geneticomathematical methods identified a significant correlation between the type of psychopathy in probands and the corresponding type of personality disorders in the first-kin relatives of the probands. The calculated rate of heredity in relation to the risk of hysterical pathology manifestation (in the framework of quasi-permanent multifactor model) (79.9%) suggests that the formation of hysterical psychopathy is to a considerable degree determined by genetic mechanisms.