The brain is a complex organ that produces all kinds of physical and emotional effects on your body. Sometimes, emotional trauma or psychological stress can trigger physical symptoms. When this ...

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms like paralysis or blindness with no physiological cause. In the past, such events were often described as ...

In part 2 of the case of Nancy, readers learned how conversion disorder not uncommonly develops alongside histrionic personality disorder. The question remains, however: What makes these conditions ...

Of all conditions treated in our field, perhaps none more clearly demonstrates the need for a dynamically-informed psychiatry than conversion disorder. The patient who presents with neurological ...