Why conversion seizures should be classified as a dissociative disorder

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 185-211

  Bowman, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE;

ANGER; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADULT; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FREUDIAN THEORY; HUMANS; HYSTERIA; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; SEIZURES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33644866244     PISSN: 0193953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2005.10.003     Document Type: Review

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