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Hysterical Conversion

I: A History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

C. J. Mace
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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.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 161 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 369 - 377
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Copyright © 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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