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Meaning of "conversion disorder" in the English dictionary

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONVERSION DISORDER

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Conversion disorder is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CONVERSION DISORDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Conversion disorder

A conversion disorder causes patients to suffer from neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits without a definable organic cause. It is thought that symptoms arise in response to stressful situations affecting a patient's mental health. Conversion disorder is considered a psychiatric disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition. Formerly known as "hysteria", the disorder has arguably been known for millennia, though it came to greatest prominence at the end of the 19th century, when the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, physician and psychiatrist Sigmund Freud and psychiatrist Pierre Janet focused their studies on the subject. Before Freud's studies on hysteria, people who suffered from physical disabilities that were not caused by any physical impairments, known as hysterical patients, were believed to be malingering, suffering from weak nerves, or just suffering from meaningless disturbances. The term "conversion" has its origins in Freud's doctrine that anxiety is "converted" into physical symptoms.

Definition of conversion disorder in the English dictionary

The definition of conversion disorder in the dictionary is a psychological disorder in which severe physical symptoms like blindness or paralysis appear with no apparent physical cause.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CONVERSION DISORDER

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Synonyms and antonyms of conversion disorder in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «conversion disorder» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONVERSION DISORDER

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The translations of conversion disorder from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «conversion disorder» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

转化症
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trastorno de conversión
570 millions of speakers

English

conversion disorder
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रूपांतरण विकार
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

اضطراب التحويل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

расстройство преобразования
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

transtorno de conversão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রূপান্তর ব্যাধি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trouble de conversion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gangguan penukaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Konversionsstörung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

転換性障害
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전환 장애
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gangguan konversi
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

rối loạn chuyển đổi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாற்று கோளாறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रुपांतरण डिसऑर्डर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dönüşüm bozukluğu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disturbo di conversione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zaburzenia przemiany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розлад перетворення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tulburare de conversie
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

διαταραχή μετατροπής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

omskakeling wanorde
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

konvertering oordning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

konvertering lidelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of conversion disorder

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONVERSION DISORDER»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about conversion disorder

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONVERSION DISORDER»

Discover the use of conversion disorder in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to conversion disorder and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Kaplan & Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
The symptoms or deficits of conversion disorder are not intentionally produced, are not due to substances, and are not limited to pain or sexual symptoms, and the gain is primarily psychological and not social, monetary, or legal. Epidemiology ...
Benjamin J. Sadock, Virginia A. Sadock, 2008
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Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral ...
Conversion disorder is an illness of symptoms or deficits that affect voluntary motor or sensory functions, which suggest another medical condition, but that is judged to be caused by psychological factors because the illness is preceded by  ...
Benjamin J. Sadock, Harold I. Kaplan, Virginia A. Sadock, 2007
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The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, ...
Conversion disorder has been linked with lower socioeconomic status, lower education, lack of psychological sophistication, and rural setting. The disorder appears to be diagnosed more often in women than in men, with ratios varying from ...
Robert E. Hales, M.D., M.B.A, Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A., 2014
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Clinical Assessment of Malingering and Deception, Third Edition
Disability due to conversion disorder may serve a wide range of psychological needs. It may (1) legitimize latent dependent needs, (2) allow punitive retaliation against an employer or a spouse, (3) provide exemption from societal and ...
Richard Rogers, 2012
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Pediatric Hospital Medicine: Textbook of Inpatient Management
CHAPTER. 15. IF. •. CONVERSION. DISORDER. DISTINCTIVE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FINDINGS IN CONVERSION DISORDER From Sadock BJ,. every possible step is taken to assure that the family can access the services they need.
Ronald M. Perkin, Dale A. Newton, James D. Swift, 2007
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The Medical Basis of Psychiatry
A conversion disorder is a medically unexplained loss or alteration in voluntary sensorimotor functions. The classic examples of conversion disorders are sensorimotor abnormalities that mimic neurological disorders, therefore, they often ...
S. Hossein Fatemi, Norman Sartorius, Paula J. Clayton, 2008
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Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine
The most typical conversion symptoms involve loss of neurologic function: blindness, aphonia, pseudoseizures, paralysis, anesthesia, tunnel vision, gait abnormality, unresponsiveness, and amnesia (13). The conversion disorder symptom ...
Allan B. Wolfson, Gregory W. Hendey, Louis J. Ling, 2009
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Psychiatry
Between 15% and 30% of patients diagnosed with conversion disorder have an underlying physical illness that is later diagnosed. Between 30% and 50% of patients with conversion disorder have a comorbid psychiatric diagnosis, but there is ...
Joshua T. Thornhill, 2008
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Somatoform and Factitious Disorders
Slater and Glithero (1965) reported that 30% of patients originally diagnosed with conversion disorder were found to have organic illness that apparently accounted for their original presentation. Other studies found that less than 30% of cases ...
Katharine A. Phillips, 2008
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Somatization Disorder in the Medical Setting
G. Richard Smith, Jr. Conversion Disorder Conversion disorder is a psychiatric syndrome characterized by the presence of a conversion symptom (Ford and Folks 1985). A conversion symptom is a loss of function, presumably based on an  ...
G. Richard Smith, Jr., 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONVERSION DISORDER»

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Bond denied for girl charged in trooper's shooting
After the hearing, Eisenmenger told reporters that McNeil was previously diagnosed with severe depression and conversion disorder, a mental ... «Florida Today, Jul 15»
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Review: 'Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole'
The book includes a host of cases of hysteria (or conversion disorder, if unlike the narrator you prefer the euphemism), perhaps because it is ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Madison County man found competent to stand trial despite inability …
Combs disagreed, stating that the conversion disorder is merely a working hypothesis mentioned in the evaluation report and not presented as ... «The Daily Progress, Jul 15»
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Cyber bullying discussed after Ryan Hawkins' Facebook message to …
It was co-founded by Reuben Cunningham, whose daughter Chloe was diagnosed with conversion disorder, a condition that affects the body's ... «The Times, Jun 15»
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Hospitals, PTSD, and the Bad Diagnosis That Won't Go Away
Conversion disorder. I fucking hate the words Conversion Disorder. The physical evidence was right in front of them and they refused to see it. «Patheos, Jun 15»
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North American Seminars Introduces Three New Physical Therapy …
... dizziness, atypical BPPV, anxiety, migraine, acoustic neuroma, superior canal dehiscence, conversion disorder and Mal de Debarquement. «PR Web, Jun 15»
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“That pulled the rug out from under my feet!” – adverse experiences …
These patients might be referred to a psychiatrist or a psychotherapist, who is most likely to diagnose a dissociative or a conversion disorder (cf. «BMC Blogs Network, Jun 15»
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“Stage fright”: Mark Twain coined the term and gave Tom Sawyer a …
In the end, the girls were diagnosed with a condition called “conversion disorder,” a mass psychogenic illness better known as mass hysteria. «Salon, Jun 15»
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Mother says her daughter was diagnosed by letter
The letter dated May 26 contains no definition of conversion disorder. Margaret Toth says she had to Google it to discover it's a mental health ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jun 15»
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Keep promises made by school with 'Don Lay Flyer Field' · Becoming Ironman: A journey from conversion disorder to triathlete · In our view: ... «St. George Daily Spectrum, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Conversion disorder [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/conversion-disorder>. Apr 2024 ».
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