Conversion Disorder - Conversion disorder is included as a somatoform disorder under the general classification of hysterias in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). Although defined as a condition that presents as an alteration or loss of a physical function suggestive of a physical disorder, conversion ...

BehaveNet Clinical Capsule: DSM-IV: Conversion Disorder Before neurological evaluation rules out physical causes this Somatoform Disorder can be confused with a physical illness that affects sensory (e.g. anesthesia, blindness) or voluntary motor functioning (e.g. astasia-abasia, paralysis). Usually the deficit fails to conform to known anatomical or physiological characteristics. Diagnostic ...

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which emotional distress or unconscious conflict are expressed through physical symptoms.

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Once referred to by the term, hysteria, conversion disorder describes those not uncommon conditions in which extreme emotional or psychological stress is dissociated from conscious awareness and converted to physical symptoms in both men and women.