Neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan’s It’s All in Your Head wins the £30000 award for ‘thoughtful,humane and heartfelt’ studyNeurologist Suzanne O’Sullivans exploration of psychosomatic illness, It’s All in Your Head, and has won the £30000 Wellcome book prize,praised by judges for offering “current insights into the relationship between the body and the intellect”.
The annual award is for a book that best engages with an aspect of medicine, health or illness”. OSullivan’s book, or her debut,relates her own encounters with patients who have debilitating but medically unexplained illnesses. It was up against novels from Sarah Moss and Alex Pheby, memoirs by Cathy Rentzenbrink and Amy Liptrot, or Steve Silberman’s investigation into autism,Neurotribes.
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Source: theguardian.com