somatoform disorder; symptoms seem to indicate a neurological condition, but cannot be explained by a medical condition; severe enough to impair functioning. Once called hysteria.
A somatoform disorder in which sensory or muscular functions are impaired, usually suggesting neurological disease, even though the bodily organs themselves are sound; anaesthesias and paralyses of limbs are examples.
Syndrome characterized by pseudoneurological ( somatoform and dissociative) symptoms such as amnesia, paralysis, impaired coordination or balance, localized anesthesia, blindness, deafness, double vision, hallucinations, tremors, or seizures without medical explanation.
a somatoform disorder in which the person exhibits motor or sensory loss or the alteration of a physiological function without any apparent physical cause. 491
A syndrome characterized by symptoms of apparent dysfunction in sensory or motor functioning in the absence of abnormal findings on neurologic examination or diagnostic testing. The symptom(s) must not be intentionally produced or feigned, must cause considerable social or occupational impairment, and are not etiologically related to other identified medical or psychiatric disorders.
a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)
a condition in which a person develops certain physical symptoms, such as paralysis or visual impairment , in response to severe psychological stress
a rare form of mental illness in which a person has physical symptoms that no medical condition can explain
A psychiatric condition in which aberrant bodily functioning arises from psychologic conflict or need. Coded 300.11.
a neurosis caused by the patient's conscious or unconscious desire to escape or avoid some unpleasant situation or responsibility or, to obtain sympathy or some other secondary gain. Also called conversion hysteria or conversion reaction. In women particularly, the symptoms of traumatic brain injury are sometimes mistakenly diagnosed as conversion disorder.
One of the somatoform disorders (but in some classifications called a dissociative disorder), characterized by a symptom suggestive of a neurologic disorder that affects sensation or voluntary motor function. The symptom is not consciously or intentionally produced, it cannot be explained fully by any known general medical condition, and it is severe enough to impair functioning or require medical attention. Commonly seen symptoms are blindness, double vision, deafness, impaired coordination, paralysis, and seizures.
This is one of the vague psychological terms used, and often in a very unspecific way, to describe the psychological responses to WRULDS.
Conversion Disorder is a DSM-IV diagnosis which describes neurological symptoms such as extreme weakness, paralysis, sensory disturbance and attacks that look like epilepsy but which cannot be attributed to a known neurological disease. It is most common in the developing world and lower socio-economic groups where access to healthcare and neurological investigation is poor.