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Fifteen-year follow-up of conversion disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

H. R. Chaudhry ,
N. Arshad ,
S. Niaz ,
F. A. Cheema ,
M. M. Iqbal  and
K. A. Mufti
H. R. Chaudhry
Affiliation:
Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, email: pprc@wol.net.pk
N. Arshad
Affiliation:
Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, email: pprc@wol.net.pk
S. Niaz
Affiliation:
Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, email: pprc@wol.net.pk
F. A. Cheema
Affiliation:
Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, email: pprc@wol.net.pk
M. M. Iqbal
Affiliation:
Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, email: pprc@wol.net.pk
K. A. Mufti
Affiliation:
Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, email: pprc@wol.net.pk
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The terms ‘conversion’, ‘hysteria’ and ‘conversion hysteria’ were used interchangeably to describe a condition characterised by a single somatised symptom, often pseudo-neurological in nature. DSM–III (American Psychiatric Association, 1980) expanded the concept of conversion to generalised symptoms involving loss or alteration of physical functioning suggestive of a physical disorder, along with a clinical indication that the conversion was an expression of psychological conflict or need. The type of symptom or deficit should be specified as: with motor symptom or deficit, with sensory symptom or deficit, with seizure or convulsions, or with mixed presentation (Kaplan & Sadock, 2004).

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International Psychiatry , Volume 2 , Issue 10 , October 2005 , pp. 17 - 19
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