Zum Hauptinhalt springen Zur Suche springen Zur Hauptnavigation springen
Beschreibung

What happens when the symptoms are real, but the tests say nothing is wrong?

Neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan enters the difficult territory of psychosomatic illness, where patients can experience disabling physical symptoms without the structural disease or damage they and their doctors expect to find. Through extraordinary clinical cases, she explores dissociative seizures, functional neurological symptoms and other perplexing conditions, while showing why a psychosomatic diagnosis must never become an excuse for careless diagnosis or dismissal.

Moving between patient stories, neurological investigation and the history of medicine, O'Sullivan challenges the stubborn division between mind and body. She asks why psychosomatic illness carries such stigma, how doctors arrive at the right diagnosis and why patients so often experience a psychological explanation as an accusation.

For readers interested in medicine, psychology and the mysteries of human experience, It's All in Your Head makes a compassionate case for taking these conditions seriously.

'A fascinating glimpse into the human condition... a forceful call for society to be more open about such suffering' Daily Mail

'Honest, fascinating and necessary' The Times

What happens when the symptoms are real, but the tests say nothing is wrong?

Neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan enters the difficult territory of psychosomatic illness, where patients can experience disabling physical symptoms without the structural disease or damage they and their doctors expect to find. Through extraordinary clinical cases, she explores dissociative seizures, functional neurological symptoms and other perplexing conditions, while showing why a psychosomatic diagnosis must never become an excuse for careless diagnosis or dismissal.

Moving between patient stories, neurological investigation and the history of medicine, O'Sullivan challenges the stubborn division between mind and body. She asks why psychosomatic illness carries such stigma, how doctors arrive at the right diagnosis and why patients so often experience a psychological explanation as an accusation.

For readers interested in medicine, psychology and the mysteries of human experience, It's All in Your Head makes a compassionate case for taking these conditions seriously.

'A fascinating glimpse into the human condition... a forceful call for society to be more open about such suffering' Daily Mail

'Honest, fascinating and necessary' The Times

Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Andere Fachgebiete
Genre: Importe, Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 326 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099597858
ISBN-10: 0099597853
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 702070
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: O'Sullivan, Suzanne
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Suzanne O'Sullivan
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2016
Gewicht: 0,237 kg
Artikel-ID: 104209146

Ähnliche Produkte