Journal article

What's so special about conversion disorder? A problem and a proposal for diagnostic classification

RA Kanaan, A Carson, SC Wessely, TR Nicholson, S Aybek, AS David

British Journal of Psychiatry | Published : 2010

Abstract

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.

University of Melbourne Researchers