Open Access<p>Psychiatrists’ Understanding and Management of Conversion Disorder: A Bi-National Survey and Comparison with Neurologists</p>
Author(s) -
Benjamin Dent,
Biba Stanton,
Richard A A Kanaan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s256446
Subject(s) - conversion disorder , medicine , psychiatry , neuropsychiatry , psychogenic disease , psychosocial , ambivalence , neurology , scrutiny , family medicine , psychology , social psychology , political science , law
A 2011 survey of neurologists' attitudes to conversion disorder found a tacit acceptance of the psychological model but significant ambivalence around its relationship to feigning. These issues are under increased scrutiny as the DSM-5 revision removed both the requirement for a psychological formulation and the exclusion of feigning from the diagnostic criteria. Whether those attitudes are shared with psychiatrists is unknown.