{"id":295025,"date":"2010-02-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.mindhacks.com:\/\/a2d4650f498a7aa22da0ba8d0f367b2d"},"modified":"2010-02-08T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T08:00:00","slug":"nine-legendary-hypochondriacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295025","title":{"rendered":"Nine Legendary Hypochondriacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/tormented_hope.jpg\" width=\"143\" height=\"143\" \/>ABC Radio National&#8217;s <i>Late Night Live<\/i> has a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/latenightlive\/stories\/2010\/2807721.htm\">discussion<\/a> with the author of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9781844881345,00.html\">book<\/a> on nine famous hypochondriacs: James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Paul_Schreber\">Daniel Paul Schreber<\/a> is necessarily the best example of someone with hypochondria is he is famous for writing a personal account of being genuinely mentally ill and floridly psychotic. However, I&#8217;ve not read the book and the programme focuses on better known figures so I am open to being convinced (certainly his delusions included lots of beliefs about his body changing in curious ways).<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/latenightlive\/stories\/2010\/2807721.htm\">Link<\/a> to <i>Late Night Live<\/i> on hypochondria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Radio National&#8217;s Late Night Live has a fascinating discussion with the author of a new book on nine famous hypochondriacs: James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol. I&#8217;m not sure Daniel Paul Schreber is necessarily the best example of someone with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}