For some people, perhaps even many people, disordered thinking shows up primarily in physical symptoms. At one extreme, such symptoms constitute conversion disorder. What do such symptoms means, and ...

Physical symptoms and signs can also sometimes help with an internal conflict. For instance, if you are coping with the desire to hurt someone, conversion disorder might cause you to become deadened, ...

It is important to consider a differential diagnosis between paralysis on an organic basis and paralysis and disability due to psychological mechanisms in people with physical impairment secondary to ...

For some people, perhaps even many people, disordered thinking shows up primarily in physical symptoms. At one extreme, such symptoms constitute conversion disorder. What do such symptoms means, and ...

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms like paralysis or blindness with no physiological cause. In the past, such events were often described as ...

CONSIDER what would happen if you fell off your bike and were unable to move your arm. Your arm is unharmed and no other part of your body is harmed either. Your doctor could find no ...