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Conversion in a Schizophrenic Process

RICHARD C. SIMONS, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1964;11(3):277-281.

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Introduction

The process of conversion as manifested in the hysterical syndrome was the framework around which Freud³ developed psychoanalytic theory and technique. In recent years there has been a renewal of interest in the conversion process, and this has resulted in efforts by a number of authors to make a clear distinction between the conversion process and the hysterical personality, and to demonstrate that the conversion process is a symptomatic defensive operation which can exist along the entire range of personality types and psychopathological syndromes.^{6,11,21,22,28,33}

However, those cases in the literature which describe conversion symptoms in a schizophrenic illness often present certain difficulties. In the so called "borderline cases,"^14,16,20,35 there are the problems of chronicity, of multiple and mixed symptomatology, of concomitant psychotic and neurotic defensive patterns, of varying degrees and phases of regression and restitution. In cases which have been . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BROOKLYN, NY

From the Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan 23, 1964.

Reference 12, 13, 15, 23-25, 27, 29, 30.

Sandler,²⁵ p 197.

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