The Other Side of the Couch: A Psychiatrist Solves His Most Unusual Cases

The Other Side of the Couch: A Psychiatrist Solves His Most Unusual Cases

The Other Side of the Couch: A Psychiatrist Solves His Most Unusual Cases

The Other Side of the Couch: A Psychiatrist Solves His Most Unusual Cases

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Overview

“Stories of human behavior at its most extreme….With humor, compassion, empathy, and insight, Small searches for and finds the humanity that lies hidden under even the most bizarre symptoms.”
—Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind
 
A psychiatrist’s stories of his most bizarre cases, The Other Side of the Couch (originally published in hardcover as The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head) by Gary Small, M.D., and Gigi Vorgan—co-authors of The Memory Bible—offers a fascinating and highly entertaining look into the peculiarities of the human mind. In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, and the other bestselling works of Oliver Sacks, The Other Side of the Couch surprises, enthralls, and illuminates as it focuses on medical mysteries that would stump and amaze the brilliant brains on House, M.D.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061803840
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 11/15/2011
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 693,121
Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Dr. Gary Small is a professor of psychiatry at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the UCLA Longevity Center at the university’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior. He and Gigi Vorgan are the authors of iBrain, The Memory Prescription, The Longevity Bible, and The Memory Bible.


Dr. Gary Small is a professor of psychiatry at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the UCLA Longevity Center at the university’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior. He and Gigi Vorgan are the authors of iBrain, The Memory Prescription, The Longevity Bible, and The Memory Bible.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

1 Sexy Stare 1

2 The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head 21

3 Take My Hand, Please 39

4 Fainting Schoolgirls 57

5 Baby Love 73

6 Silent Treatment 87

7 The Shrinking Penis 102

8 Worried Sick 119

9 Eyes Wide Shut 138

10 Brain Fog 155

11 Dream Wedding 172

12 Gaslight 188

13 Shop Till You Drop 205

14 Mountain Heir 221

15 Sigmund Fraud 239

Afterword 259

Notes 262

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