The social network of functional neurological disorder

I approached this review of Suzanne O’Sullivan's latest book, The Sleeping Beauties and other stories of mystery illness, with some trepidation. It is a book about functional disorders—particularly functional neurological disorder—and how they are shaped by the social context they arise in. An open review of any work can be fraught, and I was nervous because of the way I felt after finishing O’Sullivan's first book, It's All in Your Head: true...