Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan is the author of Is It All in Your Head? (Other Press), which won the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize. She has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, working first at the Royal London Hospital and currently as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, as well as for a specialist unit based at the Epilepsy Society. She has developed expertise in working with patients with psychogenic disorders, alongside her work with those suffering from physical diseases, such as epilepsy.
“Thoughtful and stimulating…The whole-life stories that Dr.
O’Sullivan tells are compelling [and] carefully chosen…a wise
book.” —Wall Street Journal
“O’Sullivan illuminates one of medicine’s most fraught moments,
when a physician reaches the conclusion that there is no physical
(or ‘organic’) disease.” —New York Review of Books
“In this important book, O’Sullivan…advocates for new ways to look,
understand, and treat unexplainable symptoms, paving the way for
bringing relief to her patients. Some of the cases will break your
heart.” —Huffington Post
“Each chapter of this book presents a case study, lending vivid
life to patients with psychosomatic disorders…If empathy is
bolstered by understanding, then this book will bring such
sentiments to a rarely understood condition. It will engage
readers’ heads, but also quite possibly enter their
hearts.” —Publishers Weekly
“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.” —Sunday Times
“Honest, fascinating, and necessary.” —The Times (UK)
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