When a person's complaint takes the form of physical symptoms that resemble disease or disability (lameness,

deafness, or anesthesia), the problem is called
a. a dissociation.
b. an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
c. hypomania.
d. a conversion disorder.


ANSWER: d

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