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Quintner's 1991 RSI history names and quotes Yolande Lucire at length as the leading 1980s proponent of the psychogenic hypothesis

In the "Psychogenic/Psychosocial Hypotheses" section of "The RSI syndrome in historical perspective" (International Disability Studies 1991;13(3):99–104), John Quintner singles out the Australian psychiatrist Yolande Lucire as the case's leading advocate: "On the other side of the debate, Lucire maintained that the symptoms of 'RSI' were psychogenic. She saw the syndrome as containing elements of both somatization and conversion." He quotes her directly ("there is no known organic disorder where a group of muscles become dysfunctional and painful for one intentional activity but not for another") and summarises the wider camp — "The concept of RSI as a psychogenic illness was expanded by Lucire and other authors, all adamant in their denial of an underlying physical injury." Lucire is cited to two of her own papers, "Neurosis in the workplace" (Medical Journal of Australia 1986;145:323–326) and "Social iatrogenesis of the Australian disease 'RSI'" (Community Health Studies 1988;12:146–150).

Lucire is named in Quintner's running prose five separate times — by a wide margin the most-discussed proponent of the psychogenic view in the paper, and the only one he quotes. This locates the decisive "RSI is psychological" turn in the 1980s, roughly a century after Gowers applied "occupation neuroses" as a somatic central-nervous-system label (see claim-quintner-frames-occupation-neurosis-as-19c-cns-diagnosis-without-freud-collision and entity-occupational-neurosis). It is the direct-read confirmation of a lead the earlier seedling note could only route as an unchecked secondary attribution; the naming is asymmetric, however, since Lucire's two footnote-co-cited contemporaries are not named in the prose at all (see claim-quintner-1991-cites-ireland-bell-in-footnote-not-named-in-prose).

Source

Tier 1 John Quintner 1991
https://pudendalnerve.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/The%20RSI%20syndrome%20in%20historical%20perspective.pdf
“The concept of RSI as a psychogenic illness was expanded by Lucire and other authors, all adamant in their denial of an underlying physical injury.”
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