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It's All in Your Head: Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness
by Suzanne O'Sullivan
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A consultant neurologist describes patients whose seizures, paralysis, blindness and pain turn out to have no physical disease behind them. The symptoms are real, but they come from the mind. Through a series of carefully drawn cases, she follows each person from the first puzzling symptoms through tests, doubt and diagnosis, showing how stress, memory and expectation can show up in the body. The book argues against the stigma that clings to these conditions and examines how doctors, families and patients themselves struggle to accept an explanation that sounds like an accusation. It is humane, clear-eyed and often unsettling, and it keeps questioning what we mean when we call an illness real.
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