Abstract
Thirty patients diagnosed as Conversion Disorder and Somatization Disorder on DSM-III were investigated using IBQ and EPI. The patients differed with the controls on all the 7 factors of illness dimensions. They scored higher on neuroticism and low on extroversion.
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