Chapter 5 - Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99)»Anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, somatoform and other nonpsychotic mental disorders (F40-F48)»Dissociative and conversion disorders (F44)

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Dissociative and conversion disorders

Sub-codes (9)

Related indications (MeSH) (2)

Conversion Disorder2 drugs (1 approved, 1 experimental)

A disorder whose predominant feature is a loss or alteration in physical functioning that suggests a physical disorder but that is actually a direct expression of a psychological conflict or need.

Historical term for a chronic, but fluctuating, disorder beginning in early life and characterized by recurrent and multiple somatic complaints not apparently due to physical illness. This diagnosis is not used in contemporary practice.