Dealing with conversion disorder
4th August 2015
By Dr Viv
Conversion Disorder, now renamed “Somatic Symptom Disorder” (DSM V) was once misogynistically termed hysteria because of a fanciful belief that it was due to an inability of a woman to achieve orgasm.

Rumour has it that doctors sought to remedy this perceived deficiency in their surgeries with the aid of strange devices. This practice has now, not surprisingly, gone out of fashion.
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