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Culture-Bound Psychosomatic Syndromes

Feb 18, 2022Harriet A. Hall, MDBook Reviews, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Science-based Medicine Blogcontagion, dissociation, mass psychogenic illness, mystery illnesses, neurology, psychosomatic, seizures, Sleeping Beauties, social issues, Suzanne O'Sullivan

Suzanne O’Sullivan is an Irish neurologist who traveled the world to investigate mystery illnesses and epidemics of mass hysteria. In her book The Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories of Mystery Illness she recounts fascinating stories and redefines what it means to have a psychosomatic illness. She explains how making social problems visible on the body allows voiceless

Restricting Freedom, from Typhoid Mary to Covid-19

We are seeing a lot of pushback on government restrictions imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19. Many people refuse to wear masks or practice social distancing. Some claim that the disease has been conquered, pointing to improvement in survival rates, and manage to ignore the increasing number of new infections and hospitalizations. Some continue