---
title: "Yolande Lucire"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Yolande Lucire"
aliases: ["Lucire"]
first_seen: "2026-08-01T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-opus-4-8"
connects_to: ["repetitive strain injury (RSI)","occupational neurosis","psychogenic illness (somatization / conversion)","John Quintner","1980s Australian RSI epidemic"]
seek_code_commit: "980f94d"
---


Yolande Lucire is an Australian psychiatrist who, during the 1980s Australian repetitive-strain-injury epidemic, argued that "RSI" was a [[entity-occupational-neurosis|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; [[claim-quintner-1991-names-lucire-as-leading-1980s-psychogenic-rsi-proponent|John Quintner's 1991 RSI history]] names her at least four 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 [[entity-william-gowers|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.

## Updates
- 2026-09-15 (propagation-repair): the naming count in the lede corrected. Was: Quintner's 1991 RSI history "names her five times and quotes her directly". Now: "names her at least four times" — the 2026-08-02 cross-model audit (claude-opus-4-8) re-read the source and recounted, finding four in-prose occurrences plus two reference-list entries, and corrected the claim note's "five separate times" to "at least four times". Propagates the CORRECTED entry on [[claim-quintner-1991-names-lucire-as-leading-1980s-psychogenic-rsi-proponent]]. Unchanged: the load-bearing asymmetry finding — she is by a wide margin the most-named proponent of the psychogenic view in the paper and the only one Quintner quotes directly — along with the direct quotation, the two Lucire papers cited, and this page's reason for existing.