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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jun 26

    My colleague, neurologist Alice Flaherty, rescues patients from the destructive belief, encouraged by Freudian theory, that ailments are "all in your head" (conversion symptoms; "psychosomatic"). @ericboodman reports. https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/19/alice-flaherty-mass-general-neurologist/ … via @statnews

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      1. Joseph Spinelli, PhD‏ @DrJSpinelli Jun 26
        Replying to @sapinker @benshapiro and

        @sapinker Are you going so far as to say that conversion symptoms do not exist? In any case?

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      1. Yiannis Zachariades‏ @yianniszacharia Jun 26
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        Freud did not say ailments are all in your head. This is false.

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      1. Steve Heitman‏ @steve_heitman Jun 26
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        What can she do for Trump Derangement syndrome?

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      1. Old Troll 3‏ @OldTroll_3 Jun 26
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        Is her largest group of patients Liberals? They need the most help!

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      1. Martin Lavin‏ @Real_SF Jun 27
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        Fantastic, much needed

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      1. red river‏ @kiwigirl1 Jun 26
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        Thank God awareness is happening... my 3 year old, a cancer survivor, has been left with neurological problems from chemo and radiation.... Not in her head!!

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      1. tony ridler‏ @tony_ridler Jun 26
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        If we don't, do our own thing, we won't have our shit together👐

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      1. Virgil‏ @VirgilMSW Jun 26
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        Great article. It always amazes me how much treating others as much of a human as we see ourselves can impact them. Medical training is already so difficult, but teaching them psychotherapy tools would do so much for the profession.

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      1. Scott Mannion‏ @scottmannion Jun 26
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        Psych event = real event. It's all happening physically, in the brain. Jung was pushing this very early.

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      1. tom davis‏ @tomarama Jun 26
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        Weird. I can't remember the last time I heard someone say that.

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      1. Dr. Dan Cady‏ @DanCady Jun 26
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        As someone who was required to read Fenichel and Fancher, I couldn't agree more. I experienced the same sense of skepticism then as I did when I was first exposed to the story of Noah's Ark when I was 6.

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      1. Aimee Angle‏ @AngleAimee Jun 26
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        I love Alice Flaherty’s works.

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