Conversion Disorder: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment - Verywell …
网页2023年7月7日 — Conversion disorder is a relatively rare mental illness, with 2 to 5 out of 100,000 people reporting symptoms per year. It is categorized as a type of somatic symptom disorder, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the leading diagnostic guide for the mental health profession.
Conversion disorder | Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment
网页2024年8月6日 — The former term, hysteria, is derived from the Greek hystera, meaning “uterus,” and reflects the ancient notion that hysteria was a specifically female disorder resulting from disturbances in uterine functions. Actually, the symptoms of conversion disorder may develop in either sex and may occur in …
Conversion disorder: the modern hysteria | Advances in …
网页In the first edition of the DSM (now known as DSM–I) (American Psychiatric Association, 1952), conversion disorder appeared as ‘conversion reaction’ . In DSM–II (1968), it was grouped with dissociation disorder under the new diagnostic category of ‘hysterical neurosis’, a title echoing the early concept of ‘hysteria’ resulting ...
Conversion Disorder - Psychology Today
网页2021年7月16日 — Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person develops physical symptoms that are not under voluntary control and are not explained by a neurological disease or another...
Functional neurologic disorder/conversion disorder - Mayo Clinic
网页2022年1月11日 — Symptoms of functional neurologic disorder may appear suddenly after a stressful event, or with emotional or physical trauma. Other triggers may include changes or disruptions in how the brain functions at the structural, cellular or metabolic level. But the trigger for symptoms can't always be identified.
The Classification of Hysteria and Related Disorders: Historical and ...
网页2015年11月6日 — The first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association listed “dissociative reaction” together with “conversion reaction” in a section for “psychoneurotic disorders” that also included anxiety (e.g., “anxiety hysteria”) and depressive “reactions.” The text ...
Explaining the unexplained: understanding hysteria | Brain
网页2001年6月1日 — The concept of hysteria or conversion disorder, firmly anchored in psychoanalytic theory, postulates the emergence of physical symptoms as an unconscious attempt to resolve a painful psychic conflict. The advantages accruing from the adoption of the sick role contribute to perpetuate the disability.
Hysterical Conversion Reactions: A Clinical Guide to Diagnosis …
网页2006年4月1日 — Hysterical Conversion Reactions: A Clinical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment. WILLIAM CORYELL Authors Info & Affiliations. Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry. Volume 142, Number 6. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.772. Get Access.
Conversion Hysteria: Lessons From Functional Imaging
网页2004年8月1日 — The symptoms of hysteria can affect any aspect of elementary neurological function. including involuntary movements or paralysis, non-epileptic seizures, mutism, urinary retention, hallucinations, pain, blindness, deafness, and analgesia.
Surgical treatment of a hysterical conversion reaction
网页2003年6月21日 — Hysterical conversion reaction is a disorder characterised by various somatic and mental symptoms, resulting from dissociation and typically beginning during adolescence or early adulthood. The condition is more common in women than men. Almost any organ disease symptom can be simulated on a hysterical basis.