Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2016
MEDIA REVIEWS
'....a truly impressive book,chosen for its many virtues...new insights into the relationship between the body and the mind'. - Joan Bakewell chair of the Wellcome Book Prize.
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.Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099597858Number of pages: 336Weight: 234 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
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 bookA fascinating glimpse into the human condition...a forceful call for society to be more open about such sufferingAn important study of psychosomatic illness,which shows it to be a serious disease of modern society: misunderstood,misdiagnosed and surrounded by fearRemarkable 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
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