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Conversion hysteria

Conversion hysteria is the kind of hysteria, especially common in the early days of psychoanalysis, which converts psychological conflict into the form of serious physical problems like paralysis. Such striking phenomena are now rare, outside of battle fatigue (perhaps because of increased sophistication about unconscious dynamics), though summarizing and psychosomatic illnesses are still with us.

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