In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time.
She lives in London..
Her first book, Is It All in Your Head?: True Stories of Imaginary Illness, won the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize and the Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize.
About author(s): SUZANNE O\'SULLIVAN is an Irish neurologist working in Britain.
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.
Riveting and often distressing, these case studies are recounted with compassion and humanity.
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.
Suzanne O\'Sullivan --an award-winning Irish neurologist--investigates psychosomatic disorders, traveling the world to visit communities suffering from these so-called Mystery illnesses.
In The Sleeping Beauties, Dr.
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.
Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during the night.
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In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a contagion.
In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time
