Recensione:
"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)
"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)
"An extraordinary book... an important one too" (Kathryn Hughes, 5 stars Mail on Sunday)
"Honest, fascinating and necessary" (David Aaronovitch The Times)
"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 fascinating glimpse into the human condition... a forceful call for society to be more open about such suffering" (Ian Birrell Daily Mail)
"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)
Descrizione del libro:
A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness
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