Question

A group of teenage girls from leroy, new york began experiencing symptoms similar to tourette's syndrome and were ultimately diagnosed with conversion disorder. freud's account of conversion disorders included the idea of ____, which refers to the greatly increased attention and sympathy from loved ones and avoidance of difficult situations or tasks.

Answer 1

Freud's account of conversion disorders included the idea of "secondary gain".Conversion disorder comes from old Egypt, and was some time ago known as "hysteria". The idea of conversion disorder reached noticeable quality toward the last part of the nineteenth century, when the neurologists Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud and Pierre Janet concentrated their examinations regarding the matter.