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Conversion Disorder

Here are entered works on a disorder in which a patient has one or more major physical symptoms that greatly impair musculoskeletal or sensory functioning but for which an organic basis cannot be found.

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• Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
• Hysteria
• Somatoform Disorders

• Conversion hysteria
• Conversion (Psychoanalysis)
• Conversion reaction
• Craft palsies
• Globus hystericus
• Hysterical neurosis, Conversion type

• Somatization disorder in the medical setting (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, 1990), by G. Richard Smith and United States Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism (New York and London: Routledge, c2024), by Melanie Altanian (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, and Kalia Brooks Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, and Kalia Brooks Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Douglas Robinson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Abigail G. H. Manzella (PDF at Ohio State)

• Inner Light: Your Fantasies and Dreams, by Scott Hughes (HTML at ideapyramid.com)
• The Psychology of Day-Dreams (c1921), by J. Varendonck, contrib. by Sigmund Freud (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sylvie and Bruno (Macmillan, 1890), by Lewis Carroll, Harry Furniss, University Press, and John Wilson and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Weaver of the Frost (Harper and Bros., 1927), by Ken Nakazawa and S. Mizumo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kiwliveri chambordutʻiwně i Lilipʻutʻ gachachneru ashkharhě (880-02 K. Polis : Tpagr. Ō. Pʻēltʻēean ew ěnk., 1922., 1922), by Jonathan Swift (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alice's adventures in wonderland and Through the looking-glass (Rand, McNally, 1916), by Lewis Carroll and Milo Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gulliver's travels into some strange parts of the world : condensed from the immortal tale of Dean Swift (McLoughlin Bros., 1939), by Leonora de Lima Andrews and Jonathan Swift (page images at HathiTrust)
• Davy and the goblin : or, What followed reading "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" (Houghton Mifflin, 1913), by Charles E. Carryl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Salt in Oz (Reilly & Lee Co., 1936), by Ruth Plumly Thompson, John R. Neill, and L. Frank Baum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über das vorbewusste phantasierende Denken (Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1922), by J. Varendonck and Sigmund Freud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber den Begriff des Wortes "Phantasia" bei Aristoteles. (Huth, 1863), by Jacob Freudenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prince Prigio (J.W. Arrowsmith, 1889), by Andrew Lang and Gordon Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shining adventure (Harper, 1916), by Dana Burnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The magic of Oz; a faithful record of the remarkable adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in their successful search for a magical and beautiful birthday present for Princess Ozma of Oz (Reilly & Lee, 1930), by L. Frank Baum and John R. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The patchwork girl of Oz (Reilly & Lee Co., 1913), by L. Frank Baum and John R. Neill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Leben in Traum eine Studie (G. Böhme, 1887), by Paul Schwartzkopff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (American Book Company, 1918), by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, and Clifton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monday tales (Little, Brown, 1901), by Alphonse Daudet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The master key : an electrical fairy tale founded upon the mysteries of electricity and the optimism of its devotees. It was written for boys, but others may read it (The Bowen-Merrill company, 1901), by L. Frank Baum, Fanny Y. Cory, Braunworth & Co, and Bowen-Merrill Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Emerald City of Oz (Chicago : The Reilly & Britton Co., publishers, [1910], 1910), by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill, and Reilly & Britton Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Little Black Sambo (Applewood Books, 1995), by Helen Bannerman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alice's adventures in wonderland (Macmillan, 1912), by Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le avventure di Pinocchio; storia di un burattino (A. Salani, 1924), by Carlo Collodi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alice's adventures in Wonderland (Chicago et al.: Rand, McNally & Co., 1902), by Lewis Carroll and Florence Milner, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (page images at Florida)
• Through the looking glass (London: Macmillan and Co., 1872), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by John Tenniel and Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)

• Gender and Personality: Current Perspectives on Theory and Research (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985), ed. by Abigail J. Stewart and M. Brinton Lykes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Identification and individuality; instincts fundamental to human behavior (Beekman Press, 1970), by John T. Flynn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proceedings ... (United States Bureau of Health Manpower, Division of Medicine, 1975), by D.C.) International Conference on Women in Health (1975 : Washington, United States. Health Resources Administration, and United States. Health Resources Administration. Division of Medicine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ego identity and the social order; a psychological analysis of six Indonesians. (American Psychological Association, 1962), by Alan O. Ross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Theory and research in projective techniques, emphasizing the TAT. (Wiley, 1963), by Bernard I. Murstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The relationship between projection and prejudice, with a factor analysis of anti-Semitic and anti-Negro attitudes. (Catholic University of America Press, 1957), by Peter T. Pompilo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentence completion; a projective method for the study of personality (Thomas, 1954), by James Quinter Holsopple and Florence R. Miale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Projective techniques and cross-cultural research. (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961), by Gardner Lindzey (page images at HathiTrust)

• The wisdom tooth : a fantastic comedy in three acts (New York : Samuel French, [1927], 1927), by Marc Connelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Concept of Repression (1921), by Girindrashekhar Bose
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Margot Gayle Backus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Repressed Emotions (New York, Brentano's, c1920), by Isador H. Coriat
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens : (über Vergessen, Versprechen, Vergreifen, Aberglaube und Irrtum) (S. Karger, 1912), by Sigmund Freud, Albert Polon, and Leon J. Taubenhaus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Psychopathology of Everyday Life, by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (Gutenberg ebook)

• Dispositional source of job satisfaction : the role of self-deception (Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University, ILR School, 1994), by Amir Erez and Tim Judge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ein fall von doppeltem bewusstsein ... (Schlesische volkszeitungs-buchdruckerei, 1898), by Wolfgang i. e. Richard Wolfgang Theodor Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sublimation. (Macmillan Co., 1947), by J. Trevor Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two techniques for detecting boundary-layer transition in flight at supersonic speeds and at altitudes above 20,000 feet (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by John G. McTigue, Gilbert Petty, John D. Overton, and Flight Research Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Foote's replies to the Alphites, giving some cogent reasons for believing that sexual continence is not conducive to health ... (Murray Hill Publishing Company, 1889), by Edward B. Foote (page images at HathiTrust)

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