A conversion disorder causes patients to suffer from neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits without a definable organic cause. It is thought that symptoms arise in response to stressful situations affecting a patient`s mental health. Conversion disorder is considered a psychiatric disorder in the Diagnostic and Sta....
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This is one of the vague psychological terms used, and often in a very unspecific way, to describe the psychological responses to WRULDS.
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a type of mental disorder in which a wide variety of sensory, motor, or psychic disturbances may occur. It is traditionally classified as one of the ... [7 related articles]
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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. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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conversion reaction a somatoform disorder characterized by symptoms or deficits affecting voluntary motor or sensory functioning and suggesting physical illness but produced by conversion. A person's anxiety is “converted” into any of a variety of somatic symptoms such as blindness, deafness, or paralysis, none of wh...
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This is one of the vague psychological terms used, and often in a very unspecific way, to describe the psychological responses to WRULDS.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a mental disorder in which an unconscious emotional conflict is expressed as an alteration or loss of physical functioning, either voluntary motor or sensory. 2. a DSM diagnosis that is established when the specified criteria are met. Synonyms: conversion hysteria neurosis, conversion neurosis, conversion reaction, hyster...
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n] - a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)
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conversion reaction noun a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)
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a mental disorder in which physical symptoms, as paralysis or blindness, occur without apparent physical cause and instead appear to result from psychological conflict or need. Also called
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A disorder characterized by medically unexplained symptoms that affect voluntary motor functioning or sensory functioning.
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