Opis: It's All in Your Head - Suzanne O'Sullivan

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. "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 "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

Szczegóły: It's All in Your Head - Suzanne O'Sullivan

Tytuł: It's All in Your Head
Autor: Suzanne O'Sullivan
Wydawnictwo: Vintage Books
ISBN: 9780099597858
Rok wydania: 2016
Ilość stron: 336
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.24 kg

Recenzje: It's All in Your Head - Suzanne O'Sullivan