conversion disorder
conversion disorder — 名詞
1. a mental health condition where deep emotional pain or worry turns into real phy
轉化症
心理壓力轉成身體症狀的精神疾病
a mental health condition where deep emotional pain or worry turns into real physical problems, like sudden blindness or trouble walking, even though doctors find nothing wrong with the body.
Doctors diagnosed Adaeze with conversion disorder after every test on her legs came back normal.
在 Adaeze 雙腿的每項檢查都正常後,醫師診斷她患有轉化症。
diagnosed with conversion disorder + tests come back normal
In conversion disorder, painful feelings the mind cannot face often surface as real bodily symptoms.
在轉化症中,內心無法面對的痛苦情緒,常以真實的身體症狀表現出來。
definitional framing: emotional cause, physical symptom
After the car crash, Mauricio lost his voice for weeks, a classic sign of conversion disorder.
車禍之後,Mauricio 失聲了好幾週,這是轉化症的典型徵兆。
stress event triggers physical symptom
The young soldier's shaking hands turned out to be conversion disorder, not a nerve injury.
那名年輕士兵雙手顫抖,結果是轉化症,而非神經受損。
contrast: psychological cause vs physical injury
Therapy, not medicine, helped Élise recover from the sudden paralysis caused by conversion disorder.
幫助 Élise 從轉化症造成的突發癱瘓中康復的是心理治療,而不是藥物。
- diagnosed with conversion disorder
- symptoms of conversion disorder
- treat conversion disorder
- functional neurological symptom disorder
the current clinical name in the DSM-5; same condition, more neutral wording
- hysteria
older, now-dated and stigmatising term for similar symptoms
文法句型
diagnosed with conversion disorder
a case of conversion disorder
用法筆記
Almost always uncountable and clinical; pairs with verbs of diagnosis (diagnosed with, presents as). The newer DSM-5 term is 'functional neurological symptom disorder', but 'conversion disorder' is still widely used.
常見錯誤
同根字
- convert動詞B1
- conversion名詞B2
- disorder名詞B2
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- symptoms of conversion disorder
- diagnosis of conversion disorder
- case of conversion disorder
常用片語
- diagnosed with conversion disorder
- treat conversion disorder
- present with conversion disorder
介系詞搭配
- with conversion disorder
- of conversion disorder