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"conversion disorder" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a psychological disorder in which a person experiences a neurological symptom, such as blindness or paralysis, that cannot be explained by any known medical condition. For example, "Although a series of medical examinations revealed no physical cause for her inability to walk, she was eventually diagnosed with conversion disorder."
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conversion disorder
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A condition where the patient has neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, but without any neurological explanation.
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(See conversion disorder).
(See also mental disorder: Conversion disorder).
Many are diagnosed with conversion disorder – a somatization of anxiety.
Conversion Disorder and E.M.D.R. Are there studies that show the effectiveness of E.M.D.R. in treating conversion disorder?
What we're not sure of, is why this is only temporary in hypnosis but long-term in conversion disorder.
Isolated conversion disorder symptoms may also occur in conjunction with psychotic disorders.
When did you start to take the possibility of conversion disorder or mass hysteria seriously?
It's been difficult finding info on E.M.D.R. as it relates to conversion disorder.
Katie and Thera thought some other girls in town might be suffering from conversion disorder.
"We had three separate Japanese television crews come over," Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, the Buffalo neurologist who has treated fifteen of the girls for conversion disorder, said last week.
However, the New York state department of health found the girls were suffering from mass psychogenic illness, also known as conversion disorder, a form of mass hysteria.
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