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It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness
Dr. Suzanne O´sullivan
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Description for It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness
Paperback. As many as a third of people visiting their GP have symptoms that are medically unexplained. In most, an emotional root is suspected. We accept our hearts can flutter with excitement and our brows can sweat with nerves, but in the very real world of psychosomatic illness, the author finds the secrets we are all capable of keeping from ourselves. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: MBNH9; VFJB; VSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 234.
WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2016 Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then life-threatening appendicitis. After a routine operation Pauline lost all the strength in her legs. Shortly afterwards, convulsions started. But Pauline's tests are normal: her symptoms seem to have no physical cause whatsoever. This may be an extreme case, but Pauline is not alone. As many as a third of people visiting their GP have symptoms that are medically unexplained. In most, an emotional root is suspected which is often the last thing a patient wants to hear and a doctor to say. We accept our hearts can flutter with excitement and our brows can sweat with nerves, but on this journey into the very real world of psychosomatic illness, Suzanne O'Sullivan finds the secrets we are all capable of keeping from ourselves.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099597858
SKU
V9780099597858
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About Dr. Suzanne O´sullivan
Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at The Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and for a specialist unit based at the Epilepsy Society. She specialises in the investigation of complex epilepsy and also has an active interest in psychogenic disorders. Suzanne's book about psychosomatic illness, It's All in Your Head, won both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Royal Society of Biology Book Prize.
Reviews for It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness
Doctors' tales of their patients' weirder afflictions have been popular since Oliver Sacks... Few of them, however, are as bizarre or unsettling, as those described in this extraordinary and extraordinarily compassionate book
James McConnachie
Sunday Times
A fascinating glimpse into the human condition... a forceful call for society to be more open about such suffering
Ian Birrell
Daily Mail
An important study of psychosomatic illness, which shows it to be a serious disease of modern society: misunderstood, misdiagnosed and surrounded by fear
Louise Carpenter
Telegraph
Remarkable Book... Offer[s] a remarkable insight into the suffering of these patients, as well as the power of the mind over the body... It should be on the reading list of every medical student.
PD Smith
Guardian
A book to start a revolution in healthcare, to make use see what no one has seen so clearly before
Helen Rumbelow
Times
James McConnachie
Sunday Times
A fascinating glimpse into the human condition... a forceful call for society to be more open about such suffering
Ian Birrell
Daily Mail
An important study of psychosomatic illness, which shows it to be a serious disease of modern society: misunderstood, misdiagnosed and surrounded by fear
Louise Carpenter
Telegraph
Remarkable Book... Offer[s] a remarkable insight into the suffering of these patients, as well as the power of the mind over the body... It should be on the reading list of every medical student.
PD Smith
Guardian
A book to start a revolution in healthcare, to make use see what no one has seen so clearly before
Helen Rumbelow
Times