Of all conditions treated in our field, perhaps none more clearly demonstrates the need for a dynamically-informed psychiatry than conversion disorder. The patient who presents with neurological ...

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms like paralysis or blindness with no physiological cause. In the past, such events were often described as ...

Several students at St Theresa Eregi Girls presented with joint pain and fatigue, requiring hospitalisation. Their suffering gained widespread attention, drawing the concern of Kenyans who demanded ...

How the Brain Lost its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness Allan H. Ropper and Brian Burrell Penguin (2019) Neurology and psychiatry both struggle to engage with disorders that elude ...