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Volume 3 Issue 9 September, 2013
❌ Conversion disorder is synonymous with Malingering
✅ Conversion disorder is a mental illness characterized by the loss or alteration of physical functioning without
any physiological reason. These physical symptoms are the result of emotional conflicts or needs and are
unconscious in nature.
❌ Hysteria is conversion disorder.
✅ Hysteria is used since antiquity, but in reality it is a misnomer (wandering uterus=Hysteria) and hence its use is
avoided and use of diagnostic term like conversion or dissociation is considered appropriate and less
stigmatizing.
