
Siri Hustvedt and Lisa Appignanesi
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The History of Hysteria in Neurology
This is a big thing, and the idea that hysteria went out in the 19th century, totally wrong. It's not faking. And they know now through brain scans that if you tell someone to fake a paralysis, you know, like say, I'm pretending that I can't move my arm. And then you do a scan of a conversion patient who has a paralyzed, it's often a left arm. So that's obviously evidence that this is not, yes, with a mind and body are not these dick cartoon things. They're not these cartoon things. Separate. Now why are all of these patients, this is fascinating, right? Why is this not in the press
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