While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt su
ffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion
- or something else entirely? In this profoundly thought-provoking and revealin
g book, Hustvedt takes the reader on her journey through psychiatry, philosophy,
neuroscience and medical history in search of a diagnosis. Conveying the often
frightening mysteries of illness, she illuminates the perenially mysterious conn
ection between mind and body and what we mean by 'I'.
