comparison to traumas such as natural disasters or serious accidents. Salient people may be loved ones but may also include figures in which trust is invested, such as doctors. NEAD shares common ground with earlier understandings of bodily manifestations of suffering or unspoken emotional or psychological experiences, such as hysteria. Space does not permit a detailed exploration of hysteria and its connections with what we understand today as psychogenic seizures or FNDs but, arguably, both are frequently connected to the experience of trauma and, in particular, sexual
comparison to traumas such as natural disasters or serious accidents. Salient people may be loved ones but may also include figures in which trust is invested, such as doctors. NEAD shares common ground with earlier understandings of bodily manifestations of suffering or unspoken emotional or psychological experiences, such as hysteria. Space does not permit a detailed exploration of hysteria and its connections with what we understand today as psychogenic seizures or FNDs but, arguably, both are frequently connected to the experience of trauma and, in particular, sexual
