از لبه کاناپه: موارد عجیب روان‌پزشکی و آنچه که به ما درباره خودمان می‌آموزند

You May Think That Vampires And Werewolves Were Merely The Stuff Of Bad Hollywood Films And Mysterious Legends, But As Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud Reveals, There Are Real People Out There Who Believe They Are Werewolves And Vampires. As A Result, They Behave In Ways Beyond Our Most Disturbing Dreams And The Wildest Fantasies Of Imaginative Film Producers. In The Tradition Of Oliver Sacks' Bestselling Book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Dr Persaud Uses Authentic Case Studies To Explain Current Thinking On Brain Function And Emotional Disorders - Such As That Of The Man Who Could Only Get His Sexual Kicks By Being Crushed In Garbage Trucks, The Film Fan Who Embedded Dozens Of Needles Into His Body In Order To Become A Robot, And Those Who Take Dieting To The Ultimate Limit By Obsessively Giving Blood Or Eating Nothing But Toilet Paper. Through These And Other Conditions, Such As Alien Hand Syndrome- Where Suffers Believe That One Of Their Own Hands Is Out To Harm Them- Multiple Personality Disorder, Erotomania And The Cases Of Some Women In Turkey Whose Tears Are Actually Filled With Blood, Dr Persaud Also Suggests That We May Not Have As Much Free Will And Control Over Our Bodies As We Would Like To Believe And Provides Startling New Evidence That These Conditions Might Be More Common Than Sceptical Psychiatrists Realize. Fascinating, Illuminating And Full Of Absorbing True Case Studies, From The Edge Of The Couch Reveals How Medical Science Is Still Struggling To Fully Understand The Workings Of The Mind- And Offers Proof That Fact Really Is Much Stranger Than Fiction. Dedication Abbreviations Acknowledgements Epigraph Introduction 1 Werewolves, Vampires and Witches: When the Past Comes Back to Haunt Us 2 It Takes Two to Tango: When Delusions Are Contagious 3 The Phantom Lover Syndrome 4 Sexual Delusions: When Death and Sex Go Hand in Hand 5 The Delusion of Love 6 Delusions of the Body 7 Danger to Self 8 You Are What You Eat: The Delusion of Nourishment 9 A Load of Old Rubbish: Diogenes Syndrome 10 Obsession 11 Munchausen Syndrome and the Delusion of Illness 12 Born into the Wrong Body: The Delusion of Gender 13 Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd: Multiple Personality Disorder 14 Delusions About who Other People are: The Capgras Delusion 15 Stranger Than Fiction? 16 Would You Know What a Delusion Is – Even If You Had One? Postscript Notes Index About the Author You may think that vampires and werewolves were merely the stuff of bad Hollywood films and mysterious legends, but as Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud reveals, there are real people out there who believe they are werewolves and vampires. Using case studies, he explains this thinking on brain function and emotional disorders. You may think that vampires and werewolves were merely the stuff of bad Hollywood films and mysterious legends, but as the author reveals, there are real people out there who believe they are werewolves and vampires. This book uses case studies to explain the thinking on brain function and emotional disorders. Uses authentic case studies to explain thinking on brain function and emotional disorders - such as that of the man who could only get author's sexual kicks by being crushed in garbage trucks, and those who take dieting to the limit by obsessively giving blood or eating nothing but toilet paper.