Cybulska E M
Stone House Hospital, Thameslink Healthcare Services NHS Trust, Dartford.
Hosp Med. 1998 Aug;59(8):640-1.
Globus hystericus has been often classified as a conversion disorder. More than half of the sufferers are overtly depressed and only a handful have hysterical personality. It is argued that it might be more appropriately viewed as a psychophysiological symptom of depression that responds to antidepressant treatment.