The historical development of understanding conversion symptoms and psychological manifestations of distress, evolving from supernatural to medical to psychological explanations.
Example: The progression from viewing hysteria as wandering uterus to Freudian psychoanalytic interpretations to modern understanding of trauma and somatic symptoms.
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