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Title details for Head First by Alastair Santhouse - Available

Head First

How The Mind Heals The Body

by Alastair Santhouse
Nathaniel Priestley
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In the tradition of Lori Gottlieb and Henry Marsh, a distinguished psychiatrist examines his own practice.
 
Alastair Santhouse knew something was wrong the night he was on call during his medical training and got the news that a woman on the way to the ER had died in the ambulance. That meant he could go back to sleep! But he couldn't. He was overtaken with the sense that his joyful reaction was terrible failure. That night began his long journey away from the ER and into psychiatry.
 
Head First chronicles Santhouse's many years treating patients and his exploration of the ways in which our minds exert a huge and underappreciated influence over our health. They shape our responses to symptoms that we develop, dictate the treatments we receive, and influence whether they work. They even influence whether we develop symptoms at all.
 
Written with brutal honesty, deep compassion, and a wry sense of humor, Head First examines difficult cases that illuminate some of our most puzzling and controversial medical issues—from the tragedy of suicide, to the stigma surrounding obesity, to the mysteries of self-induced illness. Ultimately he finds that our medical model has failed us by promoting specialization and overlooking perhaps the single most important component of our health: our state of mind.
 

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  • Release date

    September 14, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9780593409657
      • File size: 265357 KB
      • Duration: 09:12:49

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Nathaniel Priestley's meditative narration invites listeners to slow their internal clocks and savor the elegant observations of British psychiatrist Alastair Santhouse. Using his broad palette of tonal patterns and his theater-quality phrasing and diction, Priestley connects to his listeners and to this author's keen sensibilities. Santhouse uses heartfelt personal anecdotes to illustrate how our mental state is connected to our physical health, how our reactions to disease and dysfunction can influence health outcomes, and how our life experiences can impact our resistance to many types of physical maladies. While such observations can come across as idiosyncratic ruminations, the author's compassion--and Priestley's touching performance--make this an audio that will move and inspire people at any stage of life. T.W. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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