Excessive use of quotation marks, eccentric footnotes, and a polemical, somewhat hysterical undertone mar the book.
en.wikipedia.org He asserted that childhood or infantile amnesia was a precursor to the hysterical amnesia, or repression, presented by his adult patients.
en.wikipedia.org They gradually become wary and suspicious of her hysterical and neurotic behavior.
en.wikipedia.org The wife, described as neurotic and somewhat hysterical, is involved in multiple, loveless affairs (it is common knowledge that her son is not her husbands).
en.wikipedia.org It is also sometimes called nonsense syndrome, balderdash syndrome, syndrome of approximate answers, pseudodementia, hysterical pseudodementia or prison psychosis.
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