On Hysteria Books ; PSYCHOLOGY Title: On Hysteria. Author: Ernst Kretschmer . Publisher: PeterISBN: 5-318-00449-0. Pages: 144. Language: Russian. Format: fb2. Size: 567. 21 Mb. Ernst Kretschmer (1888-1964), German psychiatrist and psychologist, professor at the University of Tbingen . He is widely known for his character classification (Body Building and Character, 1921), as well as his research in medical psychology and psychotherapy. In On Hysteria, published for the first time in 1923, Kretschmer reveals the mechanism of occurrence of hysterical disorders. The book has not been reprinted in Russian for more than seventy years. 85