conversion disorder
conversion hysteria

They may also have disorders of sensation similar to those in conversion disorder.

Conversion disorder is where you show the signs of mental distress in a physical way.

However, it is not uncommon for patients with neurological disease to also have conversion disorder.

Conversion disorder has been described as early as the time of Hippocrates.

Many scientists also believe that this is a conversion disorder, in which patients exhibit symptoms without any neurological cause.

Conversion disorder can present with motor or sensory symptoms including any of the following:

Conversion disorder may present at any age but is rare in children younger than 10 years or in the elderly.

Many patients with psychogenic tremor have a conversion disorder or another psychiatric disease.

There is little evidence-based treatment of conversion disorder.

It can be seen in conversion disorder.

Most neurologists use it as a code for conversion disorder in an effort not to offend the patient.

Other such artifacts include conversion disorder, Briquet syndrome, and malingering.

They were all diagnosed with conversion disorder.

Given the controversy over conversion disorder as a real diagnosis the term is most useful in an aetiological neutral sense.

Hysterical blindness is an outmoded term for a condition now designated as a conversion disorder.

The girls were diagnosed by doctors as suffering from stress-induced Conversion disorder, and eventually recovered.

Criteria for conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder) were changed.

There is still no consensus on how conversion disorder should be classified, and not all physicians agree on diagnostic criteria.

The term "conversion disorder" originated with Freud.

Conversion disorder has long been a troubling diagnosis because it hinges on negative proof: if nothing else is wrong with you, maybe you've got it.

An evolutionary psychology explanation for conversion disorder is that the symptom may have been evolutionarily advantageous during warfare.

Information on the frequency of conversion disorder in the West is limited, in part due to the complexities of the diagnostic process.

Conversion disorder (flailing and jerking of the head, often in response to severe personal stress such as physical abuse)

Many medical authors claim that the decline was due to laypeople gaining a greater understanding of the psychology behind conversion disorders such as hysteria.

The description suggests that Epizelus suffered from hysterical blindness (referred to as a conversion disorder).

With traditional conversion hysteria you see physical symptoms-nausea, pain, paralysis.

In 1970 he was diagnosed with "Conversion Hysteria," and four months before the fire he had visited a psychiatric clinic.

I read books about conversion hysteria, the placebo effect and Sufis who thread fishhooks through their pectoral muscles.

This, Freud proposed, is the basis for the neurosis he called "conversion hysteria," which today would be called simply hysteria.

Psychiatric casualties manifest themselves in fatigue cases, confusional states, conversion hysteria, anxiety, obsessional and compulsive states, and character disorders.