Personality, sexual adjustment, and brain lesions in patients with conversion symptoms
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 136 (2) , 179-182
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.2.179
Abstract
To clarify the interrelationships of conversion symptoms, hysterical personality, sexual adjustment and cerebral organic disorders, 89 patients with classic motor conversion symptoms (group L) were studied, and a subgroup of 24 of these patients (group H) were compared with 24 matched control patients (group C). Hysterical personality was found in 19% of group L, 21% of group H and none of group C. Passive-immature-dependent personality was found in 19% of group L, 21% of group H and none of group C. A total of 48% of group L, 50% of group H and 58% of group C had some cerebral disorder. Patients with conversion symptoms who also had hysterical and passive-immature-dependent personalities were especially likely to have sexual abnormalities.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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