ABSTRACT
Susannah Cahalan has written a best-selling autobiographical book about how during 2009 at the age of 24 years she experienced what she describes as her 'month of madness'. That neurologist, Souhel Najjir, judged that Cahalan had an exceptional and potentially fatal autoimmune disorder affecting proteins in the nerve cell receptors on the surface of the brain. Najjar reasoned that the probable cause of her psychological and physical symptoms is a type of encephalitis which has the technical name of 'anti-N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor encephalitis' (Dalmau's Disease). Scientism is an accusatory attribution which goes beyond the recognition that science is tainted by social processes and the unpredicted arrival of black swans. The protagonists of science in psychiatry seem undaunted by or unaware of these internal and external criticisms of science in general. Evolutionary psychology is an offspring of Darwinian evolutionary theory and sociobiology.
