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(3.74) | 20 | From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. |
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Socrates, in Plato, would prescribe no Physick for Charmides' headache till first he had eased his troublesome mind; body and soul must be cured together, as head and eyes...
—Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy  Whoever...sees in illness a vital expression of the organism, will no longer see it as an enemy. In the moment that I realise that the disease is a creation of the patient, it becomes for me the same sort of thing as his manner of walking, his mode of speech, his facial expression, the movements of his hands, the drawings he has made, the house he has built, the business he settled, or the way his thoughts go: a significant symbol of the powers that rule him, and that I try to influence when I deem it right.
—George Groddeck | |
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In memory of my parents | |
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Our first problem arises from the word migraine, which implies the existence of a (hemicranial) headache as a defining characteristic. | |
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Freud reminds us that "...the ego is first and foremost a a body-ego...the mental projection of the surface of the body." The sense of "self" appears to be based, fundamentally, on a continuous inference from the stability of body-image, the stability of outward perceptions, and the stability of time -perception. Feelings of ego-dissolution readily and promptly occur if there is serious disorder or instability of body-image, external perception, or time-perception, and all of these, as we have seen, may occur during the course of a migraine aura. Among the strangest and most intense symptoms of migraine aura, and the most difficult of description or analysis, are the occurrence of feelings of sudden familiarity or certitude (déjà vu), or its opposite, feelings of sudden strangeness and unfamiliarity (jamais vu). Such states are experience, momentarily and occasionally, by everyone; their occurrence in migraine auras (as in epileptic auras, psychoses, etc.) is marked by their overwhelming intensity and relatively long duration. These states are sometimes associated with a multitude of other feelings: the thought that time has stopped, or is mysteriously recapitulating itself; the feeling that one is dreaming, or momentarily transported to another world; feelings of intense nostalgia, in déjà vu, sometimes associated with an uprush of long-forgotten memories; feelings of clairvoyance, in déjà vu; or of the world or oneself being newly-minted, in jamais vu; and in all cases, the feeling that consciousness has been doubled. | |
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Geschreven door cc n van de grote klinische auteurs van tic twintigste eeuw, moet Migraine gelezen worden om zowel de briljante inzichten in het functioneren van de hersenen als om de manier waarop migraine besproken
Deze nieuwe editie van Oliver Sacks1 bekende standaardwerk Migraine - waarin hij op opmerkelijke wijze inzicht biedt in beleving, diagnose en therapie - is aanzienlijk uitgebreid en verrijkt met aanvullende case histories, nieuwe onderzoeksgegevens en praktische informatie over de behandeling van migraine. In een nieuw hoofdstuk, dat een kleur katern bevat met afbeeldingen van schilderijen die gemaakt zijn dooi' migrainepatiënten, bespreekt Oliver Sacks de overeenkomsten tussen visuele hallucinaties - of aura's - die vaak aan een migraine voorafgaan en de hallucinaties die voorkomen bij het gebruik van bepaalde medicijnen of bij een delirium. Oliver Sacks beschrijft de thallucinatorische constanten' tussen deze verschillende visuele hallucinaties en hij verklaart wat dit onthult over de werking van onze hersenen. Nog een belangrijke toevoeging aan de eerdere editie is het overzicht van de recente ontwikkelingen in de behandeling van migraine, waaronder zowel de vele nieuwe medicijnen die de afgelopen twintig jaar zijn ontwikkeld als de alternatieve behandelingen worden genoemd. Alleen Oliver Sacks, met zijn grenzeloze nieuwsgierigheid en rijke verbeelding, kan zo'n alomvattend boek over een van de oudste bezoekingen van de mensheid schrijven. | |
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