conversion disorder

American  

noun

Psychiatry.

1. a mental disorder in which physical symptoms, as paralysis or blindness, occur without apparent physical cause and instead appear to result from psychological conflict or need.

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conversion disorder British  

noun

1. a psychological disorder in which severe physical symptoms like blindness or paralysis appear with no apparent physical cause

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Example Sentences

Neil Crouch, from Harlow in Essex, has motor conversion disorder, severe arthritis and suffers from kidney disease.

From BBC

As a teenager she was told she had hysterical blindness, now known as conversion disorder; later in life she was said to be schizophrenic.

From New York Times

Rare conditions can also result from stress and trauma, including functional neurological disorder, or conversion disorder, which affects someone’s ability to see, walk or hear — without any medical explanation.

From Washington Post

When none of those tests provided an answer, the doctors worried that he had been so emotionally traumatized by his sister’s sudden death that he developed psychological symptoms, something known as conversion disorder.

From New York Times

Doctors initially suggested that Merryn was having panic attacks, and her family were later told that she may have conversion disorder, a mental condition formerly known as hysteria.

From BBC