Hysterical Conversion
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 161 (3) , 369-377
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.161.3.369
Abstract
‘Hysterical conversion’ dates from a century before Freud, from an important attempt to rationalise the nosological status of hysteria. Freud's own concept of ‘conversion’ followed as a quite independent synthesis of 19th-century medical thinking on the subject. Subsequent analytical usage of ‘conversion’ which has influenced the description of hysterical syndromes within mainstream psychiatry, has not been consistent with Freud's own.Keywords
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