What's so special about conversion disorder? A problem and a proposal for diagnostic classification.
Conversion disorder presents a problem for the revisions of DSM-IV and ICD-10, for reasons that are informative about the difficulties of psychiatric classification more generally. Giving up criteria based on psychological aetiology may be a painful sacrifice but it is still the right thing to do.
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Kanaan
Alan
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Carson
Simon C
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Wessely
Timothy R
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Nicholson
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Aybek
Anthony S
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D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales