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Misdiagnosis of Conversion Disorders
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2002Five cases are presented describing the clinical features for which they were referred and admitted to a rehabilitation unit and later identified as having been misdiagnosed as having a conversion disorder. The diagnoses were sarcoma-induced osteomalacia, cerebellar medulloblastoma, Huntington's chorea, transverse myelitis, and lower extremity dystonia.
Robert W, Teasell, Allan P, Shapiro
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Conversion disorders: An overview
Psychosomatics, 1985Abstract Despite a rich medical history, conversion disorders remain an elusive clinical phenomenon. Theoretical formulations have often taken precedence over empiric data. This review suggests that, with the exception of demonstrable nonpsysiologic findings, no other clinical or historical information provides other than “soft” data to support a ...
C V, Ford, D G, Folks
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Conversion Disorders is a memoir exploring the impact of a debilitating illness on the narrator's conceptions of self. The novel traces the narrator, a lawyer in the U.S. Army, from Iraq to Hawaii to New York, as she suffers from a constellation of physical and cognitive symptoms with no apparent medical cause.
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Der Nervenarzt, 2013
Classification, diagnostic and therapeutic problems are central to the disease concept of conversion disorders, which are based on the presentation of psychosocial suffering by means of pseudoneurological symptoms without an organic cause. The nosological status in the current diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-IV) and ...
C, Fricke-Neef, C, Spitzer
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Classification, diagnostic and therapeutic problems are central to the disease concept of conversion disorders, which are based on the presentation of psychosocial suffering by means of pseudoneurological symptoms without an organic cause. The nosological status in the current diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-IV) and ...
C, Fricke-Neef, C, Spitzer
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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1990
• We present two cases of serious central nervous system disease initially misdiagnosed as conversion disorder. In each instance, multiple medical evaluations did not uncover the underlying neurologic disorder. Skepticism on the part of psychiatric evaluators led to eventual diagnosis.
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• We present two cases of serious central nervous system disease initially misdiagnosed as conversion disorder. In each instance, multiple medical evaluations did not uncover the underlying neurologic disorder. Skepticism on the part of psychiatric evaluators led to eventual diagnosis.
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Dissociative Disorders and Conversion Disorders
2001The terms “dissociation” and “desaggregation” (disaggregation) were coined by Pierre Janet (1889). Janet viewed the mental life of the individual as an aggregate of mental elements, which he designated as “psychological automatisms.” Each automatism, according to his view, is a complex behavioral tendency, comprising both a performance and an emotion ...
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