... at once poignant, surprising and sometimes horrifying.

... extraordinary.

... fascinating and provocative.

O’Sullivan travels the world collecting fascinating stories of culture-bound syndromes, which she relays with nuance and sensitivity.

In this illuminating and often challenging book, [O'Sullivan] travels the world, bringing her expertise and curiosity to some astonishing cases of MPIs.

O’Sullivan’s fair and detailed analysis of Havana Syndrome is itself worth the price of this book.

...gripping, sometimes even disturbing, and will stay with the reader for a long time.

[O'Sullivan] convincingly explains how psychological, cultural, and social factors give rise to symptoms and can produce disability. She provides a powerful perspective of functional neurological disorders.

O’Sullivan, a London-based Irish neurologist, marches straight into this deep, strange pocket of experience. A pleasing storyteller, she puts to good use her neurological background while melding it with a closely observed appreciation of environmental, social, and cultural elements in the dissociative process.

Drawing on fascinating case studies, neurologist O’Sullivan delivers a razor-sharp study of illnesses that often cannot be explained in traditional medical terms.