F44

Clinical Information

• A disorder whose predominant feature is a loss or alteration in physical functioning that suggests a physical disorder but that is actually a direct expression of a psychological conflict or need.

• Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic; mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability and sometimes by amnesia or a physical deficit, such as paralysis, or a sensory deficit, without an organic cause.

• Historical term for a chronic, but fluctuating, disorder beginning in early life and characterized by recurrent and multiple somatic complaints not apparently due to physical illness. This diagnosis is not used in contemporary practice.

Details

• Person feigning illness (with obvious motivation)

• F44.0

  Dissociative amnesia

• F44.1

  Dissociative fugue

• F44.2

  Dissociative stupor

• F44.4

  Conversion disorder with motor symptom or deficit

• F44.5

  Conversion disorder with seizures or convulsions

• F44.6

  Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit

• F44.7

  Conversion disorder with mixed symptom presentation

• F44.8

  Other dissociative and conversion disorders

• F44.81

  Dissociative identity disorder

• F44.89

  Other dissociative and conversion disorders

• F44.9

  Dissociative and conversion disorder, unspecified