Conversion disorder. Medical search. Frequent questions

However, the DSM-IV classifies conversion disorder as a somatoform disorder. (wikipedia.org)
Conversion disorder is a type of somatoform disorder where physical symptoms or signs are present that cannot be explained by a medical condition. (medscape.com)
Very importantly, unlike factitious disorders and malingering , the symptoms of somatoform disorders are not intentional or under conscious control of the patient. (medscape.com)
Symptoms are exclusively a function of somatoform disorder, factitious disorder, or malingering. (medscape.com)
The psychiatric assessment can differentiate conversion disorder from other somatoform disorders, factitious disorder, and malingering, and can elucidate the psychodynamics that are important in treatment. (medscape.com)
Let me preface this post by saying that the diagnosis of "Somatoform Disorder" or "Conversion Disorder" is WAY overused and often used by doctors who can't, or don't want to to find a cause behind physical symptoms. (phoenixrising.me)
I am wondering what techniques people have found helpful - medication, psych therapies, functional neurological therapies - helpful for somatoform disorders. (phoenixrising.me)
Though classified with somatic symptom/somatoform disorders in DSM-III through DSM-5 , conversion disorder is classified as a dissociative disorder in ICD-10, keeping its long association with hysteria (Dissociative Disorders in DSM ). (medscape.com)
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Somatoform Disorder. (unboundmedicine.com)
The Washington Manual , www.unboundmedicine.com/washingtonmanual/view/Diagnosaurus/114935/all/Somatoform_disorder. (unboundmedicine.com)
People who have a somatoform disorder are not faking their symptoms. (familydoctor.org)

Conversion disorder (CD), or functional neurologic symptom disorder, is a diagnostic category used in some psychiatric classification systems. (wikipedia.org)
Conversion disorder was retained in DSM-5, but given the subtitle functional neurological symptom disorder. (wikipedia.org)
The symptom of feeling unable to breathe, but where the lips are not turning blue, can indicate conversion disorder or sleep paralysis. (wikipedia.org)
Conversion disorder is now contained under the umbrella term functional neurological symptom disorder. (wikipedia.org)
The diagnostic criteria for functional neurological symptom disorder, as set out in DSM-5, are: The patient has at least one symptom of altered voluntary motor or sensory function. (wikipedia.org)
The symptom or deficit is not better explained by another medical or mental disorder. (wikipedia.org)
Specify type of symptom or deficit as: With weakness or paralysis With abnormal movement (e.g. tremor, dystonic movement, myoclonus, gait disorder) With swallowing symptoms With speech symptoms (e.g. dysphonia, slurred speech) With attacks or seizures With amnesia or memory loss With special sensory loss symptoms (e.g. visual blindness, olfactory loss, or hearing disturbance) With mixed symptoms. (wikipedia.org)
Specify if: Psychological stressor (conversion disorder) No psychological stressor (functional neurological symptom disorder) Conversion disorder presents with symptoms that typically resemble a neurological disorder such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, hypokalemic periodic paralysis or narcolepsy. (wikipedia.org)
Conversion disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder) is categorized under the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) category of Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders. (medscape.com)
Conversion disorder takes its name from the Freudian interpretation of the condition, which posits that the symptoms result from a mental process in which a psychological conflict is first repressed and then converted into a physical symptom. (medscape.com)
"Functional neurological symptom disorder" is a subtitle to conversion disorder because the term is more often used by neurologists who see the majority of patients receiving a conversion disorder diagnosis, and because the term is more acceptable to patients. (careershodh.com)
This reduction of anxiety is considered to be the primary gain or reinforcing event that maintains the conversion symptom. (careershodh.com)
It is important to see that this is a structure beyond mere psychosomatic symptoms, and, one might call conversion the 'true' psychoanalytic symptom. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)
Conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder) is classified as one of the somatic symptom and related disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association, Fifth Edition, DSM-5 . (medscape.com)
[ 6 , 7 ] Freud first used the term conversion to refer to the development of a somatic symptom to help bind anxiety around a repressed conflict. (medscape.com)
The symptom or deficit is not intentionally produced or feigned (as in factitious disorder or malingering). (medscape.com)
The symptom or deficit is not limited to pain or sexual dysfunction, does not occur exclusively during the course of somatization disorder, and is not better accounted for by another mental disorder. (medscape.com)
[ 8 ] The primary gain, that is to say the purpose of a conversion symptom is to bind anxiety and keep a conflict internal. (medscape.com)
Functional neurological symptom disorder (FND)/Conversion disorder may be broadly defined as the presence of neurologic symptoms in the absence of a neurologic diagnosis, or when a neurologic diagnosis exists, it does not fully account for all of the patient's symptoms. (ayushdhara.in)
But even though "conversion" implies a neat one-to-one link between trauma and symptom, the reality experienced by patients and physicians is far messier. (medicalhealthhumanities.com)
Somatic symptom and related disorders is the name for a group of conditions in which the physical pain and symptoms a person feels are related to psychological factors. (familydoctor.org)
In people who have a somatic symptom and related disorders, medical test results are either normal or don't explain the person's symptoms. (familydoctor.org)
There are several types of somatic symptom and related disorders. (familydoctor.org)
No one knows exactly why symptoms of somatic symptom and related disorders appear. (familydoctor.org)
We do know that the pain and problems caused by somatic symptom and related disorders are real. (familydoctor.org)
Like many medical problems, somatic symptom and related disorders often run in families. (familydoctor.org)
How is somatic symptom and related disorders diagnosed? (familydoctor.org)
Somatic symptom and related disorders can be difficult to diagnose. (familydoctor.org)
People with somatic symptom disorder typically see their primary care physician rather than seek counseling or mental health care. (familydoctor.org)
Somatic symptom disorder usually begins by age 30. (familydoctor.org)
Can somatic symptom and related disorders be prevented or avoided? (familydoctor.org)
In functional neurological symptom disorder, physical symptoms that resemble those of a nervous system (neurologic) disorder develop. (msdmanuals.com)
Overview of Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders Somatic symptom and related disorders are mental health disorders characterized by an intense focus on physical (somatic) symptoms that causes significant distress and/or interferes with daily. (msdmanuals.com)
Functional neurological symptom disorder sometimes follows stress and conflict, which people with this disorder experience as (convert into) physical symptoms. (msdmanuals.com)
Although functional neurological symptom disorder tends to develop during late childhood to early adulthood, it may appear at any age. (msdmanuals.com)
The symptoms of functional neurological symptom disorder-such as paralysis of an arm or leg or loss of sensation in a part of the body-suggest nervous system dysfunction. (msdmanuals.com)
Also, for doctors to diagnose functional neurological symptom disorder, the symptoms must cause substantial distress and interfere with functioning. (msdmanuals.com)
Once doctors determine that the symptoms do not match those caused by any neurologic disorder, doctors consider the diagnosis of functional neurological symptom disorder. (msdmanuals.com)

1 And within psychiatry there is a similar hierarchy such that patients with 'hysteria' or conversion disorder (CD) are those found to be least satisfying to treat and are least liked by psychiatrists-the feeling is mutual of course. (bmj.com)
While this act was meant to be part of the eradication of Freud from contemporary psychiatry, from my perspective, conversion is the main formal symptomatic mechanism isolated by Freud, whereas hysteria, as a term, is suffused with phantasms of the woman going back to Ancient Greece. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)
Conversion disorder , previously called conversion hysteria, is characterized by the appearance of a series of neurological symptoms that affect motor and sensory functioning without the presence of a significant disease that causes or justifies them. (fastlyheal.com)
Recovery and processing of ostensibly suppressed or disorder, as types of hysteria. (who.int)

Multiple symptoms suggest a somatization disorder . (medscape.com)
likewise, patients already classified as demonstrating somatization disorder or schizophrenia are also not classified under conversion disorder. (medscape.com)
Somatization disorder usually involves pain and severe neurological symptoms (such as headache, fatigue). (familydoctor.org)

Overall, 32.2% (95% CI=29.7-34.9) of patients with a substance-induced psychosis converted to either bipolar or schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. (nobrainer.org.au)
The highest conversion rate was found for cannabis-induced psychosis, with 47.4% (95% CI=42.7-52.3) converting to either schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. (nobrainer.org.au)
Self-harm after a substance-induced psychosis was significantly linked to a higher risk of converting to both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. (nobrainer.org.au)
Half the cases of conversion to schizophrenia occurred within 3.1 years after a substance-induced psychosis, and half the cases of conversion to bipolar disorder occurred within 4.4 years. (nobrainer.org.au)
Genetic risk varies widely among other psychiatric disorders which range from Refametinib 25% meant for social phobias and specific personality disorders PDGFRA to over 80% for schizophrenia bipolar disorder and autism(34). (colinsbraincancer.com)

More puzzling is a set of conditions called factitious disorders , which fall somewhere between malingering and conversion disorders. (careershodh.com)
When an individual deliberately makes someone else sick, the condition is called factitious disorder imposed on another. (careershodh.com)
Diagnostic Criteria for Factitious Disorder. (careershodh.com)
Conscious/intentional production of physical symptoms is classified as factitious disorder or malingering. (medscape.com)

Newswise - March 9, 2023 - Treatment is scarce for functional neurological disorder (FND) , which requires a multidisciplinary approach. (newswise.com)
Mental diseases known as dissociative disorders are characterised by a sense of Received: 10-01-2023 discontinuity and separation from one's thoughts, memories, environment, activities, and Revised: 03-02-2023 identity. (who.int)
People with dissociative disorders unintentionally and unhealthily flee reality, Accepted: 18-02-2023 which makes it difficult for them to carry on with daily activities. (who.int)

Symptoms are secondary to other psychiatric etiologies such as depressive disorder or anxiety disorders. (medscape.com)
Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders. (gale.com)
In an accompanying editorial , Mario Maj, MD, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples, Italy, and chairperson of the World Health Organization Working Group on the Classification of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, concludes that the removal of the BE from the diagnosis of major depressive episode can only be justified by "strong and unequivocal new research evidence. (medscape.com)
A prospective study analyzing PMD individuals specifically for psychiatric diagnoses using structured interviews found anxiety disorders to be most prevalent in 38%(37). (colinsbraincancer.com)

There were 18 patients who fulfilled our criteria for BDS and 18 patients in the second group which included all of the remaining subjects with a diagnosis of any other subcategory of dissociative disorder according to ICD-10. (manipal.edu)
Inclusion of a subcategory of dissociative non-epileptic seizures, instead of dissociative convulsions, should improve the classification of dissociative (conversion) disorders. (manipal.edu)

As the name suggests, the person suffering from conversion disorder unconsciously transforms his or her psychological worries or conflicts into symptoms , difficulties or deficits on a physical level, such as blindness, paralysis of a limb, insensitivity, etc. (virtualpsychcentre.com)
Background Patients with functional motor disorder (FMD) including weakness and paralysis are commonly referred to physiotherapists. (bmj.com)

I have a personality disorder that produces instability in the emotional, affective, motivational, and social dimensions. (fastlyheal.com)
This amnesia is usually accompanied by various affective states , such as anguish and bewilderment, but on many occasions the person accepts this disorder in a very peaceful way. (virtualpsychcentre.com)
Candidate genes with potentially pathogenic variability related to PMD range from regulators of neurotransmitters that underlie pharmacotherapy of affective disorders to neuropeptides implicated in neuroplasticity to modulators of stress reactions. (colinsbraincancer.com)
Fine mapping of a susceptibility locus for bipolar and genetically related unipolar affective disorders, to a region containing the C21ORF29 and TRPM2 genes on chromosome 21q22.3. (medscape.com)
The first genomewide interaction and locus-heterogeneity linkage scan in bipolar affective disorder: strong evidence of epistatic effects between loci on chromosomes 2q and 6q. (medscape.com)

Currently, within neurology, the preferred term for these illnesses is "functional neurological disorders" (FND), which can encompass anything from non-epileptic attacks to functional tremor. (medicalhealthhumanities.com)
Patients with FND have neurologic symptoms such as limb weakness, tremors, gait difficulties, seizures, or cognitive problems that are not explained by traditional neurological disorders. (newswise.com)
The methods developed in this thesis allow for rapid generation of patient specific astrocytes which have the potential to uncover the role of astrocytes in neurological disorders and reveal novel targets for therapeutic interventions. (lu.se)

Dr. Sarah Hopkins is an assistant professor of clinical neurology and section head for multiple sclerosis and neuro-inflammatory disorders in the division of neurology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. (cdc.gov)

Bipolar Disorder. (gale.com)
The diagnosis of bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness (MDI), is based on the patient's history and clinical course. (medscape.com)
Bowden C, Singh V. Long-term management of bipolar disorder. (medscape.com)
69. Management of Bipolar Disorder Working Group. (medscape.com)
VA/DoD clinical practice guideline for management of bipolar disorder in adults. (medscape.com)
Singleton deletions throughout the genome increase risk of bipolar disorder. (medscape.com)
Price AL, Marzani-Nissen GR. Bipolar disorders: a review. (medscape.com)
Diagnostic features, prevalence, and impact of bipolar disorder. (medscape.com)
Heritability of bipolar spectrum disorders. (medscape.com)
Assessment of the effect of age at onset on linkage to bipolar disorder: evidence on chromosomes 18p and 21q. (medscape.com)
Evidence of susceptibility loci on 4q32 and 16p12 for bipolar disorder. (medscape.com)
A genome survey indicates a possible susceptibility locus for bipolar disorder on chromosome 22. (medscape.com)
Impaired feedback regulation of XBP1 as a genetic risk factor for bipolar disorder. (medscape.com)
Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role for ANK3 and CACNA1C in bipolar disorder. (medscape.com)
Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4. (medscape.com)

Conditions which feature recurrent or persistent episodes of dyskinesia as a primary manifestation of disease may be referred to as dyskinesia syndromes (see MOVEMENT DISORDERS). (lookformedical.com)
Psychogenic movement disorders (PMD) and other conversion disorders (CD) with apparent neurological signs (neurologic CD) plague patients and perplex doctors. (colinsbraincancer.com)

This is not a helpful diagnostic characteristic because it is not specific or sensitive for conversion and should have no isolated role in separating organic from psychiatric disease. (medscape.com)
Another reason that conversion disorder was important to me, was that hysteria's presence in our psychiatric bible was fortuitously discarded, leaving the diagnosis of conversion disorder to hold its last traces. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)
The connections of PMD with specific psychiatric disorders derives coming from several case-series and graph review studies with sample sizes which range from five to 127 subjects(9). (colinsbraincancer.com)
Studies of psychiatric out-patients from India have found that diagnosis of some of the subcategories of the dissociative and conversion disorders of the ICD and DSM classificatory systems are rarely made in this setting. (manipal.edu)
Moreover, it was found that a significant percentage of patients seen in psychiatric practice may not fit into the defined subcategories of dissociative (conversion) disorders of these systems of classification. (manipal.edu)
We studied the prevalence of various ICD-10 and DSM-IV categories of dissociative (conversion) disorders and our own proposed category of 'brief dissociative stupor' (BDS), among all the in-patients of a psychiatric unit in a general teaching hospital, over a 2-year period. (manipal.edu)
For the 109 patients under 18 years old, the study noted both the medical or surgical diseases diagnosed as well as psychiatric disorders and the treatment approaches used by psychiatrists. (who.int)
Depressive and adjustment disorders were the most often diagnosed psychiatric illnesses. (who.int)
Psychiatric disorders suspected, abuse or neglect [ 4,5 ]. (who.int)
recognize psychiatric disorders [ 11 ]. (who.int)
The most com- atric team in a Saudi Arabian hospital, what monly encountered diagnoses were epilep- psychiatric disorders were found and what sy, drug overdose, ambiguous genitalia, treatment approaches were used by the orthopaedic injuries and diabetes mellitus. (who.int)
1 , 2 A movement disorder, 1 , 2 catatonia occurs with general medical conditions and psychiatric disorders ( Table 1 ). (mhaus.org)

Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. (gale.com)

Psychogenic Disorders (incl. (sharecare.com)
Prospective investigations of traumatized as multiple personality disorder), fugue, 'psychogenic' persons have not produced any conclusive examples of or 'functional' amnesia, and depersonalization amnesia unrelated to brain injury, sickness, or insult. (who.int)

Conversion, he says, left the personality of the hysteric intact (the other diagnoses have a more eroding effect), showing Freud how the talking cure could do its work, as the analyst listened for these traces of the repressed. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)

Autism Spectrum Disorder. (gale.com)

Body dysmorphic disorder occurs when a person becomes obsessed with a flaw in their physical appearance. (familydoctor.org)

Conversion symptoms are those that suggest neurologic disease, but no explanation of these symptoms is found following physical examination and diagnostic testing. (medscape.com)
In conversion disorder, symptoms suggest neurologic disease, but no explanation for these symptoms is found upon physical examination and diagnostic testing. (medscape.com)

Symptoms of conversion disorder usually occur suddenly. (wikipedia.org)
The symptoms of conversion disorder arise in response to stressful situations. (banglajol.info)
While symptoms of conversion disorders can be severe, people often recover within a few weeks. (blogspot.com)

Doctors first check for physical, particularly neurologic, disorders that can account for the symptoms by taking a thorough medical history, doing a thorough physical examination, and doing tests. (msdmanuals.com)
Neurologic disorders are an emerging extrahepatic manifestation of HEV infection. (cdc.gov)
Human prion diseases are progressive neurologic disorders that include sporadic, genetic, and acquired forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)

Conversion disorder begins with some stressor, trauma, or psychological distress. (wikipedia.org)
In cases of conversion disorder, there is a psychological stressor. (wikipedia.org)
Conversion symptoms suggest a physical disorder but are the result of psychological factors. (medscape.com)
A disorder whose predominant feature is a loss or alteration in physical functioning that suggests a physical disorder but that is actually a direct expression of a psychological conflict or need. (lookformedical.com)
The disorder receives this name because it is considered that the person "converts" a psychological conflict into a series of physical symptoms, such as the inability to move certain parts of the body or use the senses usually. (fastlyheal.com)
Conversion disorder appears as a result of the patient's attempt to resolve the psychological conflict, thus giving rise to a series of physical symptoms that reflect an internal dispute. (fastlyheal.com)
[ 3 ] Although defined as a condition that presents as an alteration or loss of a physical function suggestive of a physical disorder, conversion disorder is presumed to be the expression of an underlying psychological conflict or need. (medscape.com)
A conversion disorder is when psychological stress or trauma becomes manifested physically in the body. (blogspot.com)
Likewise, there is a wide categorization of the different types of conversion disorder according to the accepted physical or psychological functions. (virtualpsychcentre.com)
The topics covered include infectious diseases, many cancers, chronic and acute physical and psychological conditions, newly emerging and reemerging diseases, public health issues, and issues of interest to the young adult audience (eating disorders, sports injuries, growth, and puberty). (gale.com)
High psychological disturbance rates and statistical manual of mental disorders, have been observed in children admitted to DSM3R and later DSM4 [ 12,13 ]. (who.int)

D. The behavior is not better accounted for by another mental disorder such as delusional belief system or acute psychosis. (careershodh.com)
A psychiatrist will use the diagnostic criteria laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition ( DSM-5 ) to make a diagnosis. (medicalnewstoday.com)
The study aims to collect data on Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), a mental and behavioural disorder diagnosis introduced in 2013. (rcpsych.ac.uk)
February 6, 2012 - The "bereavement exclusion" (BE) to major depression contained in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) is valid and should remain in the DSM-5, according to authors of a special article published in the February issue of World Psychiatry . (medscape.com)
The evidence suggests that the excluded episodes are best considered a normal variation in bereavement and not a mental disorder," he added. (medscape.com)
If the BE is eliminated, Dr. Wakefield worries that "millions of people with transient normal depressive symptoms during grief will be incorrectly diagnosed as having a mental disorder. (medscape.com)
This may be due to the fact that people experiencing this disorder can't accept a mental health diagnosis. (familydoctor.org)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. (medscape.com)
As a result, many mental health disorders can now be treated nearly as successfully as physical disorders. (msdmanuals.com)

In this case the disorder meets all the requirements of a dissociative amnesia, but also includes an intentional transfer away from the site where the patient is usually located, this displacement tends to be to places already known by the subject. (virtualpsychcentre.com)
Our analysis revealed that there were no patients with a diagnosis of dissociative amnesia, fugue, stupor, trance and possession disorders or identity disorders. (manipal.edu)

The objective of the study was to evaluate the frequency of various psychosocial stressors and socio-demographic characteristics in patients with Conversion disorder. (banglajol.info)
This was a descriptive Cross sectional study conducted in the Department of Psychiatry of Jalalabad Ragib Rabeya Medical College Hospital, Sylhet, Bangladesh during the period from March 2011 to February 2013 among 240 admitted patients with conversion disorder satisfying inclusion and exclusion criteria who were consecutively selected as study group. (banglajol.info)
In this study, a large number of stressors were identified in patients with conversion disorder. (banglajol.info)
The present research was conducted to investigate the childhood abuse, perceived social support, cognitive appraisal and coping strategies in patients with conversion disorder and normal individuals. (ppri.pk)

Conduct Disorder. (gale.com)

Hypochondriasis occurs when a person believes that normal body functions (such as a grumbling stomach) or minor symptoms (such as a common headache) are symptoms of a very serious disorder. (familydoctor.org)

What was important for Freud early on was the stable instability of conversion in contrast to obsessional neurosis, neurasthenia, phobia, melancholia, and so on. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)

Dr. Narayan has experience treating conditions like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Alcohol Withdrawal and Anxiety among other conditions at varying frequencies. (sharecare.com)

For example, the person may tremble and think that the trembling is caused by a seizure disorder. (msdmanuals.com)

The purpose of this study is to assess the frequency of depression in the primary care givers of patients suffering from conversion disorder. (com.pk)

A history of sexual or physical abuse is not uncommon and can be seen in as many as one third to one half of patients with dissociative disorder, respectively. (medscape.com)
A conversion disorder (also known as hysterical blindness) occurs when you experience physical symptoms of a problem without having any physical injury to explain them. (depressionals.com)
Historical term for a chronic, but fluctuating, disorder beginning in early life and characterized by recurrent and multiple somatic complaints not apparently due to physical illness. (lookformedical.com)
The term conversion has been used off and on since the Middle Ages (Mace, 1992) but was popularized by Freud, who believed the anxiety resulting from unconscious conflicts somehow was "converted" into physical symptoms to find expression . (careershodh.com)
Conversion disorders generally have to do with physical malfunctioning. (careershodh.com)
The disorder is usually detected after conducting a medical examination and ruling out physical pathologies. (fastlyheal.com)
Conversion symptoms are not considered to be under voluntary control, and, should not be explained by any physical disorder or known pathological mechanism (after appropriate medical evaluation). (medscape.com)
Complete loss of your physical body in a conversion disorder is a rare condition but I believe there are people out there that are living with this condition rather than truly healing from it. (blogspot.com)
As typically understood, this is the literal conversion of unconscious trauma into physical manifestations of dis-ease. (medicalhealthhumanities.com)
Physical therapy almost always helps with short-term or long-term gait disorders. (medlineplus.gov)
Dr. Lyndly Tamura is a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist who provides nonsurgical care for patients with acute or chronic spine pain and patients with musculoskeletal disorders causing pain. (ucsfhealth.org)
Conversion disorder is when physical symptoms that are similar to a neurological disorder develop even though no neurological disorder is actually present. (familydoctor.org)
Many physical examinations and tests are usually done to make sure symptoms do not result from a physical disorder. (msdmanuals.com)
They experience their symptoms just as though they were caused by a physical disorder. (msdmanuals.com)

The current experience may have absolutely no resemblance to what happened in the original trauma but just one part of it that connects the subconscious mind with the trauma can lead to a conversion disorder. (blogspot.com)
However, I did not fully begin to heal my body from the trauma and even the experience of the conversion disorder until I met Dr. Paul Canali in 2003. (blogspot.com)
The term "conversion" implies both the underlying psychic nature of the illness - the nerves are not weakened but traumatized - and the promise of cure: if the trauma can be uncovered, the conversion will be undone, and the abnormal behaviors must stop. (medicalhealthhumanities.com)
Dissociative disorder, in dissociated memories of trauma are typical treatment particular DID, experienced an 'epidemic' in the goals. (who.int)

In other words, symptoms of an organic medical disorder or disturbance in normal neurologic functioning exist that are not referable to an organic medical or neurologic cause. (medscape.com)
[ 12 ] Systematic reviews on this subject found the frequency of this finding at 21% among those with a conversion disorder and 29% among those with organic disease. (medscape.com)
Kasia Kozlowska, MD, PhD, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at The Children's Hospital at Westmead in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues explain the scarcity of treatment is global, in part "the result of long-standing stigma and ingrained belief that patients with FND do not suffer from a real ("organic") disorder and that they therefore do not require, or even deserve, treatment. (newswise.com)

It is important to remember that the diagnosis of conversion disorder is made based on the overall clinical picture and not a single clinical finding. (medscape.com)
I have recently been told that the DSM VI is considering eradicating the diagnosis of conversion disorder, seemingly prancing after Freud's own scotoma. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)

This disorder has been studied, throughout history, by specialists in the field such as Pierre Janet or Sigmund Freud. (fastlyheal.com)
Although Sigmund Freud did not invent the term, he did articulate the conceptual model for conversion. (medicalhealthhumanities.com)

I suffer from a dissociative disorder that involves a loss of control in memory, consciousness, identity, or perception. (fastlyheal.com)
Functional neurological disorder, formerly called conversion disorder, involves the biological embedding of lived experience in the body and brain. (newswise.com)

We report on a patient with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) who was diagnosed with conversion disorder for severe weakness of an arm, which was demonstrated using diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). (tmssolutions.com)
Using DTT and TMS, conversion disorder was demonstrated in a patient with mild TBI, who showed severe weakness of an arm. (tmssolutions.com)

The ICD-10 classifies conversion disorder as a dissociative disorder, and the ICD-11 as a dissociative disorder with unspecified neurological symptoms. (wikipedia.org)
Most electronic medical records and billing/coding documentation, by contrast, use terminology from the International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10), which classifies these disorders under "dissociative disorders," implying some sort of trance-like state or a Jekyll-and-Hyde break in the integrity of personhood, neither of which seem to reflect the reality experienced by patients or interpreted by clinicians. (medicalhealthhumanities.com)

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Somatization disorder3

Schizophrenia5

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Anxiety disorders4

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Body dysmorph1

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Conduct Disorder1

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