psychoanalysis: conversion

Sometimes considered a defense mechanism, intrapsychic conflict may be symbolically represented in sensory or motor symptoms.

Also: Conversion Disorder, conversion reaction, hysteria, hysterical conversion, Somatization Disorder

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