Good children with conversion disorder: Breaking the silence

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-90

  Kozlowska, Kasia ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compulsive compliance; Conversion disorder; Somatoform dissociation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPULSION; CONVERSION DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALINGERING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHOOL CHILD; SHAME; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; THEORY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 0037237638     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359104503008001008     Document Type: Article

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