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The Sleeping Beauties – And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

by Suzanne O'Sullivan

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Defining mental illness

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A neurologist investigates startling cases of apparent psychosomatic illness affecting groups of people — including refugee children in Sweden unable to wake up, American high school students experiencing seizures, and mass headaches and memory loss at the US embassy in Cuba — examining the interplay of societal forces and human biology.

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