The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases - Hardcover

Small, Gary; Vorgan, Gigi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061803782 ISBN 13: 9780061803789

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2010

Synopsis

A renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist reveals the most mysterious, intriguing and bizarre cases of his extensive medical career in this highly entertaining and enlightening book that offers an intriguing look into the peculiarities of the human mind. 35,000 first printing.

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From the Back Cover:

True stories are more bizarre than any fiction, and Dr. Gary Small knows this best. After thirty distinguished years of psychiatry and groundbreaking research on the human brain, Dr. Small has seen it all—now he is ready to open his office doors for the first time and tell all about the most mysterious, intriguing, and bizarre patients of his career.

The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head is a spellbinding record of the doctor's most bewildering cases, from naked headstands and hysterical blindness to fainting schoolgirls and self-amputations. It is an illuminating journey into the mind of a practicing psychiatrist and his life in medicine as it evolves over time—a behind-the-scenes look at the field and a variety of mental diseases as they've never been seen or diagnosed before. You'll find yourself exploring the puzzling eccentricities that make us human.

Often funny, sometimes tragic, and always compelling, Dr. Small takes you on a tour of his career that moves from the halls of a crowded inner-city Boston emergency room to the multimillion-dollar ski lodges of the nation's elite. In between, Dr. Small introduces a strange cast of true-life characters and conditions, while dealing with mysterious hysterical blindness, a man convinced that his penis is shrinking, secret double lives, and frighteningly psychotic romantic desires. His career and personal life come full circle when his own mentor becomes his patient, making Small realize that no one is beyond mental exploration—not even himself.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061803782
• ISBN 13: 9780061803789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 267