For some people, perhaps even many people, disordered thinking shows up primarily in physical symptoms. At one extreme, such symptoms constitute conversion disorder. What do such symptoms means, and ...

The brain is a complex organ that produces all kinds of physical and emotional effects on your body. Sometimes, emotional trauma or psychological stress can trigger physical symptoms. When this ...

In part 2 of the case of Nancy, readers learned how conversion disorder not uncommonly develops alongside histrionic personality disorder. The question remains, however: What makes these conditions ...

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms like paralysis or blindness with no physiological cause. In the past, such events were often described as ...