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Into the Abyss: A Neuropsychiatrist's Notes on Troubled Minds
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We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common mental health problems, specialists argue over whether the answers lie in the person's biology, their psychology or their circumstances. As a cognitive neuropsychiatrist, Anthony David brings together many fields of enquiry, from social and cognitive psychology to neurology. The key for each patient might be anything from a traumatic memory to a chemical imbalance, an unhealthy way of thinking or a hidden tumour. Patrick believes he is dead. Jennifer's schizophrenia medication helped with her voices but did it cause Parkinson's? Emma is in a coma – or is she just refusing to respond? Drawing from Professor David's career as a clinician and academic, these fascinating case studies reveal the unique complexity of the human mind, stretching the limits of our understanding.
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"David creates a work that reads like a memoir."
"Readers will come away from this thoughtful work feeling a sense of connection to both the patients profiled and the practitioners who aim to understand them."
"The second thing, though, is an uncomfortable sense of uncertainty—that abyss again."
"Fans of the medical-mystery television series House will find arresting parallels—and striking differences—in the absorbing collection of real-life psychiatric case histories the distinguished British neuropsychiatrist Anthony David recounts ..."
"David's encounters, bracing as they are, made me wonder if there isn't something oppressive about the insistence on majesty and wonder in modern science writing."
"Into the Abyss paints a fascinating picture of the ties between mind and body and the complicated ways they interact."
"That psychiatric illness is at least partly brain disease still provokes skepticism in some circles, but these compelling case reports make a convincing argument ..."
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