Conversion disorder: the modern hysteria
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Conversion disorder: the modern hysteria
All doctors have encountered patients whose symptoms they cannot explain. These individuals frequently provoke despair and disillusionment. Many doctors make a link between inexplicable physical symptoms and assumed psychiatric ill ness. An array of adjectives in medicine apply to symptoms without established organic basis – ‘supratentorial’, ‘psychosomatic’, ‘functional’ – and these are somet...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1355-5146
DOI: 10.1192/apt.12.2.152