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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 9 February 2016
Firstly, I'm a medical doctor. I have daily contact with people who present with functional disorders, conversion disorders and somatisation disorders. What strikes me about this book is the compassion of the Author for her patients. It is obvious throughout the book that her first priority is for her patients' well being, and I salute her approach: we should all be as bold in approaching these diagnoses without fear. We don't do it because it's easier not to, to the detriment of our patients' health.
It is striking the number of ignorant and ill-informed reviews attached to this book. It's clear most of the reviewers haven't read the book and those that have have done so with preconceived ideas of what it says. The pseudo-scientific babble accompanying the most vitriolic would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic: holding these views will clearly prevent people accepting and accessing the only treatments proven to improve outcomes, namely psychological therapies such as CBT.
I was lead to this book by a relative of a patient. She was only just coming to terms with the fact that her relative had a functional illness, although the patient herself could not accept it. In my conversation with her she told me this book had been recommended to her by a psychiatrist and had given her hope that her relative may recover. I'm glad I've read it and hope I can channel some of Dr O'Sullivan's compassion and honesty when treating sufferers of these conditions.
It is striking the number of ignorant and ill-informed reviews attached to this book. It's clear most of the reviewers haven't read the book and those that have have done so with preconceived ideas of what it says. The pseudo-scientific babble accompanying the most vitriolic would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic: holding these views will clearly prevent people accepting and accessing the only treatments proven to improve outcomes, namely psychological therapies such as CBT.
I was lead to this book by a relative of a patient. She was only just coming to terms with the fact that her relative had a functional illness, although the patient herself could not accept it. In my conversation with her she told me this book had been recommended to her by a psychiatrist and had given her hope that her relative may recover. I'm glad I've read it and hope I can channel some of Dr O'Sullivan's compassion and honesty when treating sufferers of these conditions.
