222. Suzanne O’Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses
The Michael Shermer Show
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What's the Internal Logical Logical Approach to Psychiatry?
M, they also believe that they believe in spirits, but he so do we. Our religions are just different to their religion. And their religion comes with evil spirits. They can infect you. It's not any more irrational. We have this superstition about ill and when a certain thing happens, we feel sick. But they're then harnessing that to use it as an expression of distress and to ask for help. anthropologists who have studied this find it to be like a really sophisticated problem solving mechanism which the people use social problem solving and personal as well.
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