222. Suzanne O’Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There a Labelling Problem?
Soye: I feel like we're constantly in western medicine, changing the names of these things. We have to reconceptualize people's understanding of how their environments and their social sort of circumstances and their emotional well being changes their physical well being. Soye: People associate anything prefixed by psycho with some madness or craziness; m they presume that to have a psychostematic disorder, you have to have a psychiatric disorder - which obviously we know isn't the case.
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