Multiple Personality Disorders

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The media can really drive so of m new medical conditions, he says. The tanic panic in the 19 eighties was a spread across america that there every town had a tanic coult in it. And then some therapists were extracting repressed memories of childhood's sexual abuse from adult women who did know they were sexually molested. If you have any of these, or a combination, you may have been molested as a child.

Michael Shermer speaks with award-winning Irish neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan about her work exploring the complexity of psychogenic illness affecting people all around the world. Her book The Sleeping Beauties, documents her investigation of psychosomatic disorders as she traveled the world visiting communities suffering from these so-called mystery illnesses. O’Sullivan records the remarkable stories of syndromes related to her by people from all walks of life. Riveting and often distressing, these case studies — both fascinating and of serious concern — are recounted with compassion and humanity as these syndromes continue to proliferate around the globe.