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Zusatztext "Tells stories inspired by memorable patients . . . . Taking the reader from initial contact through the stages of the doctor-patient relationship." Informationen zum Autor Elias Aboujaoude is Director of the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine. His work has been featured in The New York Times! The Wall Street Journal! The Los Angeles Times! on the NBC Nightly News! and elsewhere. Klappentext "A wonderful read. These stories, written in a breezy, accessible style, illuminate several of the more mysterious and perplexing psychiatric ailments. Highly informative for both professional and lay readers."—Irvin Yalom MD, author of Love's Executioner "Dr. Aboujaoude is to be congratulated for writing such an important book. He writes lyrically about bizarre, yet entirely credible, cases of common, though poorly understood, compulsions. This book will go a long way in educating the general public, as well as professionals, with its state-of-the-art information about assessment, risk factors, and treatment of these conditions."—Donald W. Black, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa Zusammenfassung Explores a group of potentially disabling conditions that are too often suffered in silence and isolation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Psychiatry by the Dumpster H2O under the Bridge A Greek Tragedy With Any Luck One Eternity Drive References Preface Index
