Somatization Disorder: Briquet’s Hysteria Michael Trimble INTRODUCTION The term “hysteria” is as old as the earliest medical writings, and classic descriptions of symptoms we now refer to as conversion disorder…
Treatment of Hypochondriasis and Psychogenic Movement Disorders: Focus on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy John R. Walker Patricia Furer ABSTRACT Hypochondriasis is a form of abnormal illness behavior often seen in the clinic…
Malingering/Münchausen: Factitious and Somatoform Disorders in Neurology and Clinical Medicine Hans-Peter Kapfhammer Hans-Bernd Rothenhäusler ABSTRACT Beyond categoric diagnostic differentiation as factitious disorder and malingering on the one hand, and as…
Depression Valerie Voon Mark Hallett ABSTRACT The prevalence of depression is high in psychogenic movement disorders (PMD), and there are multiple similarities between the two. However, the relationship between them…
Anxiety Disorders and Abnormal Movements: A Darkly Interface Randolph B. Schiffer ABSTRACT The anxiety disorders are a heterogeneous group of neuropsychiatric syndromes characterized by nervousness, fearfulness, and psychomotor activation. Some…
Dissociation and Conversion in Psychogenic Illness Richard J. Brown ABSTRACT The concepts of dissociation and conversion have been central to theories of unexplained illness since the late 19th century. In…
The Role of Personality in Psychogenic Movement Disorders C. Robert Cloninger ABSTRACT The quantitative measurement of personality provides a rigorous quantitative approach to understanding the psychobiology of movement disorders. Individual…
Functional Paralysis and Sensory Disturbance Jon Stone Michael Sharpe ABSTRACT Paralysis or sensory loss unexplained by disease and often described as functional or psychogenic is a common clinical presentation, especially…
An Overview of the Psychiatric Approach to Conversion Disorder Fred Ovsiew ABSTRACT This overview of the psychiatry of conversion disorder addresses the reliability of the diagnosis and the psychiatric features…
Treatment and Outcome of Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures Ronald P. Lesser ABSTRACT Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are episodes that resemble epileptic seizures but are due purely to the emotions. Their clinical…
