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The Sleeping Beauties

And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

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The Sleeping Beauties

Auteur(s): Suzanne O'Sullivan
Narrateur(s): Suzanne O'Sullivan
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 In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time. In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a conta­gion. In the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during the night. These are only a few of the many sus­pected culture-bound psychosomatic syndromes—specific sets of symptoms that exist in a particular culture or environment—that affect people throughout the world.
 
In The Sleeping Beauties, Dr. Suzanne O’Sullivan—an award-winning Irish neurologist—investigates psychosomatic disorders, traveling the world to visit communi­ties suffering from these so-called mystery illnesses. From a derelict post-Soviet mining town in Kazakhstan to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua to the heart of the María Mountains in Colombia, 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 are recounted with compassion and humanity.
 
In examining the complexity of psychogenic illness, O’Sullivan has written a book of both fascination and se­rious concern as these syndromes continue to proliferate around the globe. Anthropologie Psychologie Psychologie et santé mentale Sciences sociales Fiction
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This book helped me to more deeply understand the interaction of culture and Illness and a deeper understanding of the strange world of functional neurological disorders. I am a doctor and I also see this in clinic. But I really liked the lessons about what they are all about, the suffering people go through, and that they are legitimate illnesses. Thank you. Our profession does not deal with this well. Will recommend to students and colleagues. Plus so interesting I could not stop listening to it.

Great stories illustrating a complex topic… and very much engrossing

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