What's so special about conversion disorder? A problem and a proposal for diagnostic classification.
editorial · Level V
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Conversion Disorder
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- International Classification of Diseases