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Should conversion disorder be reclassified as a dissociative disorder in DSM-V?

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Author

  • Richard J Brown
  • Etzel Cardeña
  • Ellert Nijenhuis
  • Vedat Sar
  • Onno van der Hart

Summary, in English

Pseudoneurological symptoms (i.e., conversion disorder), historically subsumed within the "hysteria" concept alongside phenomena such as psychogenic amnesia and multiple personality disorder have been classified as somatoform disorders since DSM-III. Since then, there have been repeated calls to reclassify conversion disorder with the dissociative disorders, as in ICD-10. The authors review issues such as the high correlations between pseudoneurological and dissociative symptoms, the high rates of trauma reported for both groups, and the position that these phenomena share underlying processes. Although reintegrating pseudoneurological symptoms with the dissociative disorders is not without complications, there is a strong case for such a reclassification.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

369-378

Publication/Series

Psychosomatics

Volume

48

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine

Topic

  • Psychology

Keywords

  • DSM-V
  • dissociative disorders
  • international classification of diseases
  • hysteria
  • conversion disorder

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0033-3182