The Actual 'Mirror Syndrome' (House MD)

First things first...
Who here thinks the team selection is getting over-dramatic?
Who here thinks that Kumar and the Mor(m)on need to be fired? (I like Kal Penn... but cmon already!!)

The last episode was one of the better episodes in what has been a lackluster season... if only for the fact that it was overdramatic... sick guy reading minds? Becoming people? Knowing all their secrets? Come on....

I'm not gonna dwell upon the story, as there are quite a few bloggers who deserved being stoned to death for giving out spoilers... Rather, I wanted to see if the Mirror Syndrome actually existed, and if it did, whether it was as dramatic...

A few google searches provided a few links... Wikipedia threw up something about a pregnant woman, and most others linked to House MD based sites... Apparently the formal name in the episode in Giovannini's Syndrome...

A few more google searches... aah... Giovannina Conchiglia (from Wikipedia -> List of House episodes -> Mirror Mirror) ... and now we got a few more entries on this (I imagine) hunched wizened old man who discovered ESP... among which were these three links...

To quote,

“AD seems to have lost the capacity to keep his own identity constant, as he adapts himself excessively to variations in the social contexts, violating his own identity connotations in order to favour a role which the environment proposes”

A few more quotes throw up similar stuff... I wonder who the guys in charge of material research for this sitcom are... geniuses...