K. I. Platonov. Hysterical echokinesia and echolalia. - Journal of neuropathology and psychiatry named after S. S. Korsakov. 1910. book 1

Abstract

The author describes a rare case of great hysteria with pathological phenomena of imitation. During seizures, the patient automatically reproduced with extreme accuracy all kinds of sounds and even whole phrases in languages unknown to her, which reached her hearing, and repeated all the movements of people who at that time were before her eyes. This state sometimes lasted for hours. Easy suggestibility and unusual impressionability, together with pathological imitation, bring this case closer to hysterics and the so-called. meryachenie, often found among foreigners in Eastern Siberia.

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