It's Not in Your Head
Welcome to It's Not in Your Head Podcast, with Dan and Juz. Dr. Dan is a Sports Physician and Justine a Pain Coach and patient. We have come together to find ways to manage complex pain better for both patients and providers. New episodes will come out bi-weekly on all major platforms.
It's Not in Your Head
10 The History of Hysteria: Where "It's All in Your Head" Comes From & Why It's Harmful
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From the uterus to witchcraft to hypnotism, this episode traces the long and often troubling history of how unexplainable symptoms have been labeled and dismissed. The discussion moves through historical classifications — including Briquet's syndrome, somatoform, conversion, and functional disorders — to show how deep-rooted biases have carried into modern medicine. This episode offers a lighter change of pace while delivering important context for why patients with difficult-to-explain presentations have struggled to be taken seriously throughout history.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Official Intro
00:17 Intro
01:56 Diagnostic Limitations
05:30 Doctor Side
08:57 Patient Side
11:07 Juxtaposed position
15:08 Understanding things given the time
17:31 I don't know comes with caveats
20:27 Diagnosing History
29:55 Scientific Regions
33:36 The Enlightenment
42:12 Unconcious component of the mind
51:39 Same time as Charco - Briquette
01:04:04 Symptoms Briquette starts to recognize
01:09:20 Thurbrandt - end of 1800s
01:10:56 Sigmund Freud
01:14:41 Second WW
01:17:08 Looking closer at the DSM 1
01:25:02 Unintended Consequences
01:31:25 Conversion Disorders
01:35:29 DSM 5
01:42:04 International Classification of Diseases
01:43:30 How to think about this
01:50:35 Disclaimer