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Suzanne o'sullivan is an irish neurologist working in britain. Her first book is it all in your head, true stories of imaginary illness. She travels a lot to investigate these mysterious illnesses. We go through the various ones that she writes about in the book. And if you appreciate the podcast and would like to support it, as always, you can go to sceptic dot com or slash donat.

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.