Conversion Disorder (2016 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. I thought I would just respond to a patron email, an interesting one. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I am a professor, |
| 0:13.3 | and I'm also a licensed marriage and family therapist. This email is from patron Ryan. |
| 0:20.7 | And if you haven't already, please become a patron of the podcast. |
| 0:24.1 | That's not part of the email. |
| 0:25.5 | That's just me saying, if you haven't already, become a patron of the podcast and become |
| 0:30.3 | a part of our little team of deserving listeners. |
| 0:33.8 | All right, this email is from Patreon, Ryan. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm a longtime listener and recent patron of the podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | I love the great work you guys are doing and even assigned certain episodes to my students as extra credit. |
| 0:46.3 | I can't remember if it was the psychology myths episode or the defense mechanisms episode, |
| 0:52.7 | but I remember that conversion disorder was brought up. |
| 0:55.9 | This reminded me of an encounter I had, and I figured you'd be interested in it. |
| 1:01.4 | Prior to me returning to get my Ph.D., well, latida, patron Ryan, PhD, good for you. |
| 1:08.7 | Prior to me returning to get my PhD, I was a master's level counselor in a |
| 1:12.7 | psychiatric outpatient program and was on call with the emergency department. One of my calls was |
| 1:18.6 | about a woman who inexplicably, who inexplicably lost the ability to walk and was functionally paralyzed below the waist. |
| 1:30.0 | Numerous medical consults ruled out any physical explanations. |
| 1:34.6 | This patient was quite depressed and told me about how she had a gambling and compulsive spending problem, |
| 1:41.6 | which led to her family cutting her off from her funds. |
| 1:46.2 | She became depressed and slowly started losing functioning of her legs. |
| 1:51.1 | With antidepressant medication and therapy, she eventually started walking again. |
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