Mark Edwards: What relationship do stressful life events, neglect & abuse have with functional neurological disorder (conversion disorder)?

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They themselves--Jon Stone etc--have published papers saying it's clear there are also "hardware" differences but they refuse to update the analogy. It's bizarre. And they have been arguing that the structural change associations are actually the downstream result of the functional differences. I wrote about this at some point earlier this year.

Agree it is bizarre. I understand how CBT can change thinking but how thinking can change 'hardware' problems seems to be a function of their imagination.

I am becoming concerned that it may turn out that the types of imaging tech we have is not sufficient to the task of teasing out the 'hardware' problems that exist possibly at a deeper level than can be ascertained by a scan.