Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum

Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum

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volleyball replacement net 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 shrimps is bugs shirt wonder if she was in a state of yogic sleep (yoga nidra).