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The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases
The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases
Author: Gary Small, Gigi Vorgan
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, he has seen it all.
ISBN-13: 9781611298000
ISBN-10: 1611298008
Publication Date: 2010
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3.6 stars, based on 8 ratings
Publisher: Morrow
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Who knew psychiatry could be so...strange?

Dr. Gary Small relays his most interesting and awkward cases in 'The Naked Lady Who Stood On Her Head', a fantastic analysis of people's emotional intricacies and depths and the ways they're relayed in physical symptoms. Each case - a woman with an unintended overactive sexuality and a guy who feels like his left arm shouldn't be there are just two examples - reads like an episode of televison's 'House', a mysterious illness with a hidden surprise diagnosis just waiting to pop into the good doc's brain at any moment. Small highlights the progression of each case - and his experience and emotional maturity as a psychiatrist - in perfect detail, including snippets from his personal life that show an actual person behind the white coat.

Most helpful, though, is Small's elegant way of wording medical jargon and their definitions well enough for us regular folks to understand completely and for maximum enjoyment of each told case. If classes in the medical field were taught with as much wit and understanding as Small uses, I'd be front row in that room ready to take notes.

A brilliant book with a great message - psychiatrists are people too.
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