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 hysteria In A Sentence
- Shock often manifests itself as conversion hysteria, where the mind causes the body to be incapacitated.
- In Anglo - American psychiatry, much of what was characterized as conversion hysteria in psychodynamic psychiatry is now classified under the more scientific-sounding rubric of somatization disorder.
