Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Elissa Bassist, "Hysterical: A Memoir" (Hachette, 2022)
Description: Today I talked to Elissa Bassist about her memoir Hysterical: A Memoir (Hachette, 2022)For two years author Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical specialists for pain that none of them managed to diagnose or resolve. Some of their treatments led to other medical problems but never relief. Then an acupuncturist suggested that she simply needed to take control of her voice, and Bassist was shocked when it worked. How, as far as we think we’ve come, is it still the case that a girl born in 1984 could have so much in common with generations of women who...