hysteria
| According to the work of Sigmund Freud, the conversion of a psychological conflict or anxiety feeling into a physical symptom, such as paralysis, blindness, recurrent cough, vomiting, and general malaise. The term is little used today in diagnosis, psychosomatic illness being the modern term. |
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