Yolande Lucire

Yolande Lucire is an Australian psychiatrist who, during the 1980s Australian repetitive-strain-injury epidemic, argued that "RSI" was a psychogenic rather than an organic disorder — a syndrome she read as containing elements of both somatization and conversion. In this vault she is the actually-named, actually-quoted proponent behind the "RSI is psychological" attribution that a secondary source had compressed into a three-person list; John Quintner's 1991 RSI history names her five times and quotes her directly, far more than any other figure on the psychogenic side.

She matters here for one sentence: she is the clinician whose 1980s psychogenic reading of RSI locates the condition's decisive psychologization nearly a century after Gowers's somatic "occupation neuroses," complicating any account that pins the turn on the fin-de-siècle terminology alone.

References

• claim-quintner-1991-names-lucire-as-leading-1980s-psychogenic-rsi-proponent — Quintner names and quotes Lucire at length as the leading 1980s psychogenic-RSI proponent.
• claim-quintner-1991-cites-ireland-bell-in-footnote-not-named-in-prose — the asymmetry: Lucire is named in prose, her footnote-co-cited contemporaries are not.