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108| Functional Neurological Disorders – A Conversation With Dr. Mark Hallett

Navigating Neuropsychology

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The Origins of Hysteria

The term conversion disorder really emanated from Freud's work as a pathological process, not one that produced brain pathology like amiotropic laterals. For us, but a dysfunction of the brain which was a conversion disorder. There were other theories also at the time, Janné, for example, believed in dissociation as an underlying mechanism. One a normal way and one a way in which there were these manifestations.

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