title: Personality, sexual adjustment, and brain lesions in patients with conversion symptoms.
abstract: To clarify the interrelationships of conversion symptoms, hysterical personality, sexual adjustment, and cerebral organic disorders the authors studied 89 patients with classic motor conversion symptoms (group L) and compared a subgroup of 24 of these patients (group H) with 24 matched control patients (group C). They found hysterical personality in 19% of group L, 21% of group H, and none of group C and passive-immature-dependent personality in 19% of group L, 21% of group H, and none of group C. Forty-eight percent of group L, 50% of group H, and 58% of group C had some cerebral disorder. Patients with conversion symptoms who also had hysterical and passive-immature-dependent personalities were especially likely to have sexual abnormalities.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D003193:Compulsive Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006677:Histrionic Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000523:psychology*