Conversion Disorder

Conversion Disorder LISTENING TO THE BODY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS Jamieson Webster Conversion disorder―a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations―offers a way to rethink the present. With so many people suffering from unexplained bodily symptoms; with so many seeking recourse to pharmacological treatments or bodily modification; with young men and women seemingly willing to direct violence toward anybody, including themselves―a radical disordering in culture insists on the level of the body. Columbia University Press, 2018