Conversion disorder: a problematic diagnosis
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Conversion disorder: a problematic diagnosis.
The diagnosis of conversion disorder is problematic. Since doctors have conceptually and practically differentiated the symptoms from neurological ('organic') disease it has been presumed to be a psychological disorder, but the psychological mechanism, and how this differs from feigning (conscious simulation), has remained elusive. Although misdiagnosis of neurological disease as conversion dis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.171306