The Belief Prerequisite: How FND Treatment Echoes Faith Healing
Christoff Truter
Spousal caregiver
One of the most striking things you notice when you first start reading the literature on FND is how crucial it is considered for patients to accept and believe in the diagnosis. Without that belief, treatment is often regarded as futile. They simply will not get better.
Is Conversion Disorder the same as Functional Neurological Disorder?
FndNope
Moderator
It is commonly understood that FND historically evolved from Conversion Disorder (CD), which in turn emerged from Hysteria.
Closing diagnostic doors : The Problem of Psychologisation
Christoff Truter
Spousal caregiver
The idea that physical health problems could be caused by psychological factors, that is mind, emotion, or behaviour, rather than by physical pathology, is hardly new. Its roots trace back to ancient civilisations, from Egypt, 1900 to 1500 BCE, to classical Greece, 5th to 4th century BCE, where hysteria-like symptoms were first described. These early ideas strongly influenced the development of medical psychologisation, later formalised in the DSM.
