It’s All in Your Head - Suzanne Sullivan
Whilst struggling to find a worthwhile metaphor for a book about psychosomatic illness, it occurred that the chicken and egg scenario could help allude to an eternal problem. What came first – the symptom or the illness?
Up to a third of people who go to see their GP have symptoms that are medically unexplained; in the vast majority of these cases an emotional cause is suspected. And yet, when it comes to a diagnosis, ‘it’s all in your head’ is the very last thing we want to hear, and the last thing doctors want to say.
In ‘It’s All in Your Head’, neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan takes us on a journey through the world of psychosomatic illness and encourages us to question our age-old failure to credit the intimate and extraordinary connection between mind and body.
Published by Chatto & Windus in June.
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