[New mask of hysteria: three case reports].

Background: Hysteria is a polymorphous manifestation pathology in which unconscious psychic conflicts convert symbolically into somatic and psychic symptoms.

The Aim: When patients used to express their symptoms mostly in motor register, we are assisting progressively to the emergence of a new expressive mode of this disease. In fact, passional attitudes of the "Great hysteria" of Charcot and Richer have become exceptional, replaced by rich and sometimes confusing psychic symptoms.

Methods: We report three cases of patients with hysteria hospitalized in the department of psychiatry E at the Razi hospital of Tunis.

Results: All three patients had presented a rich psychological symptoms and confusing, looking psychotic. Some semiological characteristics and the projective personality tests have allowed us to bring the diagnosis of hysteria.

Conclusion: Hysteria expression seems to change constantly with epochs, cultures, society evolutions and medical knowledge progress.