The Other Side of the Couch: A Psychiatrist Solves His Most Unusual Cases

By Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan

"Stories of human behavior at its most extreme....With humor, compassion, empathy, and insight, Small searches for and finds the humanity that lies hidden under even the most bizarre symptoms." --Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind A psychiatrist's stories of his most bizarre cases, The Other Side of the Couch (originally published in hardcover as The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head ) by Gary Small, M.D., and Gigi Vorgan--co-authors of The Memory Bible --offers a fascinating and highly entertaining look into the peculiarities of the human mind. In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings , and the other bestselling works of Oliver Sacks, The Other Side of the Couch surprises, enthralls, and illuminates as it focuses on medical mysteries that would stump and amaze the brilliant brains on House, M.D.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061803847
• ISBN13: 9780061803840
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"