INTERROGATIVE SUGGESTIBILITY IN PATIENTS WITH CONVERSION DISORDERS

We tested the hypothesis that increased interrogative suggestibility m ay contribute to the shaping and maintaining of conversion symptoms. I nterrogative suggestibility was measured in 12 patients with conversio n disorder and 10 control patients with confirmed neurological disease matched for age, premorbid intelligence, and as closely as possible i n terms of their neurological symptoms to the pa patients with convers ion disorder. Our observations do not support the contention that indi vidual differences in interrogative suggestibility are of importance i n the Etiology of conversion disorders.