[Social tension--a factor in conversion. Case report].
Presented is a case of a girl of Albanian nationality, an adolescent, one of the ill in the group of "mass poisoned" in Kosovo, at the beginning of 1990. The up to then, completely healthy girl had repeated crises of the same type four times, with functional disorders. She was hospitalized at the request of her father in Novi Sad, at the Institute for Neurology and Psychiatry of the Developmental Age. The somatic and laboratory findings were within the average limits. The psychological tests indicated a person prone to conversive reacting in situations which she does not succeed to process emotionally in an adequate manner. Such a personality structure had the role of inducing a conversive atmosphere in the immediate school environment. The presented case has suggested that a low level of general culture and expected school knowledge primarily creates favorable grounds for massive hysterical occurrences.
Nikolić
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Zavod za neurologiju i psihijatriju razvojnog doba, Novi Sad.
Popov
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I
Vlajković
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K
D000293:Adolescent; D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008399:Mass Behavior; D011041:Poisoning / Q000523:psychology*
Socijalna tenzija--faktor konverzije. Prikaz slucaja.