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#456 - David Robson - The Psychological Power Of Expectations
Modern Wisdom
Psychogenic Intolerances
People like the idea of medicalizing, or at least it makes them feel more secure. By giving something a term, by branding it as something, it kind of makes it feel more realistic and scientific. So often, like, doctors can be quite rude when they present this diagnosis that something's psychogenic in origin. And then, say, these people then feel very resist to the diagnosis. They're not really going to be very positive about, say, having like, a cognitive behavior ortherape to try to treat the psychogenic illness. It's actually much harder to treat them than it would be, often to treat someone of a purely biological illness.
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