ABSTRACT
The interface between psychiatry and neuro-otology previously was dominated by one major concept: ‘psychogenic dizziness’. Anchored in the category system of the mind-body dichotomy, this concept explained dizziness that was not judged to be caused by a medical disorder. Because the mind-versus-body category system is binary, by implication, when no cause for the dizziness can be found in the ‘body,’ its cause must reside in the ‘mind.’
