NOUN
- a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)
How To Use conversion disorder In A Sentence
- Conversion disorder has been associated with hypnotic susceptibility for over a century and is currently still believed to be a form of autohypnosis.
- What she did have was a form of conversion disorder.
- As many as 4% of those attending neurology outpatient clinics in the United Kingdom have been estimated to have conversion disorders.
- But hysteria lives on today in a different guise - conversion disorder.
- It was concluded that the present results provide evidence of a relationship between childhood traumatization and conversion disorder.
- During the Vietnam war, conversion disorders were seldom encountered as repressed memories, and abreactive treatments became a quaint historical artifact.
