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Definition of Conversion hysteria

1. Noun. A mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause).

Medical Definition of Conversion hysteria

1. Hysteria characterised by the substitution, through psychic transformation, of physical signs or symptoms for anxiety; generally restricted to such major symptoms as blindness, deafness, and paralysis, or lesser ones such as blurred vision and numbness. Synonym: conversion hysteria neurosis, conversion neurosis, conversion reaction. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conversion Hysteria

Literary usage of Conversion hysteria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1918)
"The best-known form is the classical hysteria, which Freud terms 'conversion-hysteria,' on account of the conversion of psychical disturbances into physical ..."

2. Therapeutic Gazette (1917)
"By conversion-hysteria Freud means affections of the senses and locomotion ... Under Conversion-Hysteria are noted cases exhibiting sensory symptoms such as ..."

3. The Elements of Practical Psycho-analysis by Paul Bousfield (1922)
"It thus differs slightly from the conversion hysteria in its primitive origin. We find also that in the compulsion hysteria the primitive repressed erotic ..."

4. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"In conversion hysteria the affect of the repressed complexes is drafted into bodily innervation and produces the physical symptoms of the disease. ..."

5. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1913)
"In cases as they occur in practice, this anxiety-hysteria may be mixed in any degree with the conversion-hysteria: there may be conversion-hysteria without ..."

6. Freud's Theories of the Neuroses by Edward E. Hitschmann (1917)
"In cases as they occur in practice, this anxiety-hysteria may be mixed in any degree with the conversion-hysteria: there may be conversion-hysteria without ..."

7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"In nearly all cases of the neuroses anxiety was a prominent feature, not only in pure anxiety states but in conversion hysteria, heart neurosis and cases ..."

8. Morbid Fears and Compulsions: Their Psychology and Psychoanalytic Treatment by Horace Westlake Frink (1918)
"While in conversion hysteria the symptoms are chiefly somatic, and in the compulsion neurosis a mixture of various emotional and volitional disturbances ..."

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