বাংলাদেশের নারীদের হিস্টোরিয়ায় আক্রান্ত হবার সামাজিক প্রাসঙ্গিকতা স্যার সলিমুল্লাহ মেডিকেল কলেজের রোগীদের উপর পরিচালিত একটি ফেনোমেনোলজিক্যাল পর্যালোচনা

Abstract

This paper focuses on women and the adolescent girls who suffer from Hysteria, or Hysterical Conversion Reactions (HCR), which is actually not a clinically diagnosable condition. It is found in the present study that women suffer from some miserable mental
conditions like dilemma, getting faint, convulsion, feeling down, increasing heartbeat, pain and so on that cannot be explained through diagnosis. This paper shows that these are due to the social pressures they have experienced from their social milieus. According to the patients, these experiences are real. However, doctors say that these are one kind of revolt of the body against the violent mental torture they bear through. This paper is based on an empirical study. The fieldwork of the study was conducted for six months from January to July in 2017 in the Female Ward and the Department of Psychiatry of the Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. A total of forty respondents were interviewed. Of them, twenty-five were female patients and the rests were caregivers of the patients, doctors and nurses. The Phenomenological approach was used to understand and explain the deep experience of the condition of hysteria.