It's All in Your Head by Suzanne O'sullivan
WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF BIOLOGY BOOK PRIZE 2016 'Even if medical tests cannot explain your pain or tiredness or disability, it does not lessen your suffering.
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 *
Honest, fascinating and necessary -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *
An extraordinary book... an important one too -- Kathryn Hughes, 5 stars * 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 -- Hermione Eyre * 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 -- Kate Colquhoun * Sunday Express *
A doctor's intriguing look at the puzzling world of psychosomatic illness * Sunday Times *
I don't read much fiction but I made an exception for this... Stress and sadness are motors of the subconscious, the mind is writer of medical fictions -- Linda Grant * Metro *
Like Oliver Sacks, Sullivan, a consultant neurologist, has a rich vein of experience to share -- Lucasta Miller * Independent *
Sharp and intriuging -- Doug Johnstone * Big Issue *
She tackles more detailed medical and neurological aspects of the subject in an easily understandable, organic style, adding to the narrative rather than disrupting it -- 4 stars * BBC Focus *
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 *
Honest, fascinating and necessary -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *
An extraordinary book... an important one too -- Kathryn Hughes, 5 stars * 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 -- Hermione Eyre * 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 -- Kate Colquhoun * Sunday Express *
A doctor's intriguing look at the puzzling world of psychosomatic illness * Sunday Times *
I don't read much fiction but I made an exception for this... Stress and sadness are motors of the subconscious, the mind is writer of medical fictions -- Linda Grant * Metro *
Like Oliver Sacks, Sullivan, a consultant neurologist, has a rich vein of experience to share -- Lucasta Miller * Independent *
A revealing book on the subject [of psychosomatic illness]
* Psychologies Magazine *Sharp and intriuging -- Doug Johnstone * Big Issue *
She tackles more detailed medical and neurological aspects of the subject in an easily understandable, organic style, adding to the narrative rather than disrupting it -- 4 stars * BBC Focus *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701189266 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701189266 |
| Title | It's All in Your Head |
| Author | Suzanne O'sullivan |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Wellcome Book Prize 2016 (UK), Winner of Royal Society of Biology Book Award 2016 (UK) |
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