The Adaptation of the Seer
Evolution does not reward strength. It rewards adaptability. This is the first truth that Dr. Edward Ashworth learned at the Salpêtrière, watching Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrate the plasticity of the hysterical mind before an auditorium of stunned medical students. The patients—always women, always diagnosed, always displayed—would shift their symptoms under hypnosis, trading one paralysis for...
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