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It's All in Your Head: Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness

It's All in Your Head: Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness


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2016 | Royal Society of Biology Book Award
2016 | Wellcome Book Prize
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A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness.

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.

‘A fascinating glimpse into the human condition... a forceful call for society to be more open about such suffering’ Daily Mail

‘Honest, fascinating and necessary’ The Times



About the Author :
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.

Review :
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 A fascinating glimpse into the human condition... a forceful call for society to be more open about such suffering An important study of psychosomatic illness, which shows it to be a serious disease of modern society: misunderstood, misdiagnosed and surrounded by fear 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. A book to start a revolution in healthcare, to make use see what no one has seen so clearly before Honest, fascinating and necessary An extraordinary book... an important one too This vital, engaging book... holds its own with recent bestsellers Do No Harm, the memoir of a neurosurgeon, and The Examined Life, by psychiatrist Stephen Grosz It's All in Your Head sits companionably beside Stephen Grosz's The Examined Life... it casts sympathetic light on debilitating conditions that are often medically and socially vilified A doctor's intriguing look at the puzzling world of psychosomatic illness


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781473511439
  • Publisher: Random House (Digital)
  • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1473511437
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jun 2015
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness


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