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What is wrong in conversion disorder?
  1. F Ovsiew
  1. Department of Psychiatry MC3077, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; f-ovsiew@uchicago.edu

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.74.5.557

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      The article by Stone et al (this issue, p 591– 596)1 addresses the natural history of a disorder with many names, none satisfactory. Functional, hysterical, psychogenic, medically unexplained, dissociative, conversion—all the names for this disorder have their faults. Yet the disorder is common, poses a management problem for doctors, and carries a poor prognosis. What is wrong with these patients?

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