What's so special about conversion disorder? A problem and a proposal for diagnostic classification.


Autoria(s): Kanaan Richard A.; Carson Alan; Wessely Simon C.; Nicholson Timothy R.; Aybek Selma; David Anthony S.
Data(s)

2010

Resumo

Conversion disorder presents a problem for the revisions of DSM-IV and ICD-10, for reasons that are informative about the difficulties of psychiatric classification more generally. Giving up criteria based on psychological aetiology may be a painful sacrifice but it is still the right thing to do.

Identificador

http://serval.unil.ch/?id=serval:BIB_CED6A71A4FBB

isbn:1472-1465[electronic], 0007-1250[linking]

pmid:20513849

doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.073981

isiid:000278427800003

Idioma(s)

en

Fonte

British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 196, no. 6, pp. 427-428

Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/article

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