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Migraine (Paperback)

by Oliver Sacks (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; New ed of 3 Revised ed edition (27 Jan 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330331868
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330331869
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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This revised edition of Oliver Sacks's book is considerably expanded with additional case histories, new findings and practical information on treatment. In a new chapter, illustrated with startling colour paintings by migraine patients, Dr Sacks discusses similiarities among the visual hallucinations, or auras, that often precede a migraine and those that are induced by hallucinogenic drugs or deliria. Drawing on recent advances in chaos theory and neural stimulation, he describes these "hallucinatory constants" and what they reveal about the working of the brain. This is a comprehensive view of one of mankind's complex disorders.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Technical, but Wonderful, 12 April 2000
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I have migraines, and I think this book is terrific. It does tend to be too technical, but has a Glossary that includes most unfamiliar terms. The artwork is great, and his whole treatment of the disorder is fascinating. I recommend it highly for all who experience migraines and for their families, although with the caveat that getting through it probably does require some combination of advanced education, patience with flipping to the glossary, keen interest, and openness to learning quite a lot.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting approach to migraine!, 4 Feb 2009
As well as providing an overview of migraine and its treatment, Sacks offers some interesting theories on the psychological factors he believes are involved. Some migraine sufferers become indignant at Sacks' suggestion that their condition may actually serve a purpose - i.e. enforcing rest after a lengthy period of emotional or physical activity, or even as a way of expressing repressed emotions like anger and hostility. However, I think there may be an element of truth in his ideas. I for one have often suffered a migraine attack after a particularly busy, or emotionally demanding time. Well worth a read if you think your migraines might be linked to stress and emotions.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Freudian trousers, 10 Jul 2008
By Martin Eden (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Fascinating that Sacks should interpret headache, albeit its extreme form "migraine" in Freudian terms. At every turn Sacks fails to appreciate the charlatanism, self-promotion and downright lack of scientific method that lies at the heart of Freud's ideas whilst either implicitly or explicitly using them to interpret symptomatology. In modern neuroscience migraine aura and the fortification patterns can be understood as the brain abhorring a vacuum and sensory deprivation, filling the brain with random geometric shapes that adorn neolithic caves the world over. For Sacks the reality of the meaningless of these patterns and indeed the meaningless suffering migraine inflicts is absent. Instead these are deep seated primitive outbursts of repressed emotion that can only gain sense in the crazy mixed up world of Freud where even a ladder acquires priapic significance. Nor does Sacks appear as the sympathetic physician:

"This old description brings out the true depressive quality- the sense of hopelessness and permanence of misery- a reaction which is celarly far in excess of a realistic response to a short lived benign attack of which the patient has had innumerable experiences" (pg 26)

An engaging read, if only to see how much Freud pulls at the hem of Sacks's trousers so that every step is taken with the weight of the past and the plodding ridiculousness of pseudo-religious thought.
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I still haven't made it through this book, despite three attempts. In being thorough about such a complex phenomena, Sacks drags the first half of the book into long winded... Read more
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