(February 6, 2016 at 4:53 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I remember the creator of the TV series ER, the late Michael Crichton, an MD and a somewhat of a renaissance man, describing this woman's condition (or something similar) where a woman comes into his clinic and she is completely blind but not upset because she knows that her condition is temporary. Forgot what the condition is called.
Actually there are certain hysteric conditions, already described by Sigmund Freud, that can render you temporarily blind.