Conversion disorder: advances in our understanding
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Conversion disorder: advances in our understanding.
than two millennia and used to describe atypical signs and symptoms that did not conform to established diseases, disappeared from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association’s classification of mental disorders. Critics had argued that the condition lacked validity and that it owed its longevity to tradition. Moreover, the term was pe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.110490