A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness
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.
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*
A fascinating glimpse into the human condition... a forceful call
for society to be more open about such suffering
*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
*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.
*Guardian*
A book to start a revolution in healthcare, to make use see what no
one has seen so clearly before
*Times*
Honest, fascinating and necessary
*The Times*
An extraordinary book... an important one too
*Mail on Sunday*
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
*Newsweek*
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
*Sunday Express*
A doctor's intriguing look at the puzzling world of psychosomatic
illness
*Sunday Times*
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