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Conversion disorder: Helping families understand the mind‐body connection
Author(s) -
Laptook Rebecca
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30196
Subject(s) - connection (principal bundle) , psychology , developmental psychology , psychoanalysis , psychiatry , psychotherapist , engineering , structural engineering
Mark is a 16‐year‐old boy with a history of some depressive symptoms and social difficulties at school who began having episodes that looked like seizures. He would fall down, and his arms and legs would start jerking. He was semialert during these episodes and had no memory of them afterward, seeming disoriented at times.