In part 1 of this series, readers learned how Nancy's early relational dynamics encouraged her need to be the center of attention and influenced tumultuous emotions. So overwhelming were her emotional ...

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 ...

Of all conditions treated in our field, perhaps none more clearly demonstrates the need for a dynamically-informed psychiatry than conversion disorder. The patient who presents with neurological ...

Conversion disorder is a mental illness when neurological symptom exists without an explanation. Imagine you're just finishing up your lunch break when you suddenly can't move your legs. Up until this ...