title: Hysterical conversion. I: A history.
abstract: 'Hysterical conversion' dates from a century before Freud, from an important attempt to rationalise the nosological status of hysteria. Freud's own concept of 'conversion' followed as a quite independent synthesis of 19th-century medical thinking on the subject. Subsequent analytical usage of 'conversion' which has influenced the description of hysterical syndromes within mainstream psychiatry, has not been consistent with Freud's own.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Mace
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history; D009626:Terminology as Topic