Medically reviewed by Aleesha Grier, PsyD Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms like paralysis or blindness with no physiological cause. In the ...

Helping patients prone to conversion disorder to pointedly manage unresolved conflicts and strong emotions can prevent future episodes.

Psychiatrists who work with conversion disorder patients have no doubt the symptoms are real, although research into the mechanism of the disorder could be misunderstood.

Perhaps the most puzzling of all psychiatric conditions, conversion disorder is rich in history and offers a model for psychoanalytic conceptualization.

The Conversion and Neuro-inflammation Disorder Observational (Cando) study, the first of its kind, is supported by Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust.