I agree with you all completely. As a therapist, I honestly never believed in conversion disorder and every time I got a patient sent to me with that diagnosis from an MD I simply tried to help them dig further for a medical cause. My training is that you rule out a medical cause first for everything. Also, having Chronic Lyme disease, which is called The Great Imitator and consists of numerous non specific symptoms, I am very accustomed to the whole "it's all in your head" mentality and rebuke that wholeheartedly.

The closest I've ever seen to what I refuse to call "conversion disorder" would be a couple of kids/teens with choking problems that were not medically based, but anxiety related. I diagnosed them with anxiety, not conversion disorder.

I know that most therapists/clinicians are much more likely to assign a pathological root to everything than I am. I preferred (when I was working) to look at environment, stressors, etc; not pathology until every other option was ruled out. I'd like to think all mental health professionals were well trained and appropriately skilled, but there are more screwballs and crackpots in this field than any other, in my experience!