A rare case: Conversion by proxy

Abstract

Knowing conversion disorder is the key to understand the complex human's unconsciousness at the beginning of psychoanalysis. In conversion disorder, a mental trauma is repressed to an individual's unconsciousness, and then displays itself as some neurological symptoms. Here, we introduce the case of a young girl who experienced a minor car accident without any organ injury. She did not have any problem for a week after the accident. However, she started to have stuttering when she met with her mother. The noteworthy point is that her mother had the experience of a sexual abuse in a car, which caused her to start stuttering afterwards. We will discuss here whether this is a type of conversion by proxy.