152: The Science of Hysterical Pregnancies (with NOAHFINNCE)

What happpens when you're pregnant, but without actually being pregnant? These are hysterical pregnancies, and they are totally real. Find out more about these odd phantom foetuses in today's episode.

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References & Further Reading

Hysterical Pregnancies
https://www.psychdb.com/somatic/pseudocyesis
https://www.cureus.com/articles/40598-a-rare-case-of-pseudocyesis-in-a-patient-with-bipolar-disorder
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361851/#__ffn_sectitle
https://www.britannica.com/science/false-pregnancy
https://www.britannica.com/science/hydatidiform-mole
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4133423/
https://americanpregnancy.org/getting-pregnant/infertility/false-pregnancy/

Somatic Symptom Disorders
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/somatic-symptom-disorder/what-is-somatic-symptom-disorder
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990557/
https://www.psychdb.com/somatic/dsm-5/z-other-specified