Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum
A woman in the care of the author 40 years ago was reported to have been sleeping for 2 days. We treated her condition as conversion hysteria. Her private psychiatrist was the renowned R. D. Laing; he was unhappy with our line of management, on the grounds of the arbitrariness of the diagnosis, the...
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description | A woman in the care of the author 40 years ago was reported to have been sleeping for 2 days. We treated her condition as conversion hysteria. Her private psychiatrist was the renowned R. D. Laing; he was unhappy with our line of management, on the grounds of the arbitrariness of the diagnosis, the labelling of the woman with a diagnosis of hysteria and the treatment of the patient without her consent. In retrospect, I wonder if she was in a state of yogic sleep (yoga nidra). |
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spelling | doaj.art-1344792299114d2abd31a91caaf8ad042023-03-09T12:28:26ZengCambridge University PressBJPsych International2056-47402058-62642016-11-01139910110.1192/S2056474000001458Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrumManohar Dhadphale0Kamala Nehru Hospital, Pune, India, emailA woman in the care of the author 40 years ago was reported to have been sleeping for 2 days. We treated her condition as conversion hysteria. Her private psychiatrist was the renowned R. D. Laing; he was unhappy with our line of management, on the grounds of the arbitrariness of the diagnosis, the labelling of the woman with a diagnosis of hysteria and the treatment of the patient without her consent. In retrospect, I wonder if she was in a state of yogic sleep (yoga nidra).https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056474000001458/type/journal_article |
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title | Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum |
title_full | Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum |
title_fullStr | Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum |
title_full_unstemmed | Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum |
title_short | Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum |
title_sort | hysterical stupor or yogic sleep the conundrum |
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