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Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Manohar Dhadphale
Manohar Dhadphale*
Affiliation:
Kamala Nehru Hospital, Pune, India, email [email protected]
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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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BJPsych International , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , November 2016 , pp. 99 - 101
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