Suzanne o'Sullivan: The Sleeping Beauties live at WOMAD

Just before we dive back into  a new series of food
after the summer break, we’re back at WOMAD’s World of Words tent
where Gilly chatted to Wellcome prize winning neurologist ,
Suzanne  o'Sullivan about her astonishing book The
Sleeping Beauties.


It’s her investigation of mystery illnesses, a wave of ‘mass
hysteria’ in communities across the world. Terrifyingly, it’s
affecting a growing number of people, usually children or
adolescents and mostly girls who’ve lost hope for all sorts of
sociopolitical reasons. From Cuba to Kazakhstan, Guyana to
the most famous Swedish asylum seeking girls who have been asleep
for years, o'Sullivan explores how powerfully the body can
communicate distress when no-one listens. This is a trip
deep into the human psyche via misogyny, cultural imperialism and
more than a little voodoo.  And not a single mention of
food in the hour of chat! 





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