Case Study A: Anna. O
Bertha Pappenheim, who was given the pseudonym, "Anna O.," is a perfect example of a case study dealing with somatoform disorder. Specifically, she suffered from conversion disorder, which is a set of "neurological symptoms such as weakness, sensory disturbance and attacks that look like epilepsy but which cannot be attributed to a known neurological disease." (Wikipedia.org, 2006) Pappenheim suffered from epilepsy, she lost control over half of her body including para...
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