The Yipping Tiger and Other Tales from the Neuropsychiatric Clinic

Perminder Sachdev, M.D., is director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the Prince of Wales Hospital and a professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of South Wales. He is the author of Akathisia and Restless Legs and the editor of The Ageing Brain: The Neurobiology and Neuropsychiatry of Ageing and the forthcoming Secondary Schizophrenia.

Sachdev demonstrates an uncommon ability to present the complex, esoteric world of neuropsychiatric study in a way readily digestible to the general reader. -- Colin Field National Library of Australia 2009 I doubt anyone could read this book without gaining some benefit in terms of both knowledge and enjoyment... this book is truly special. -- Gin S Malhi Acta Neuropsychiatrica 2009 Intriguing and captivating... I wholeheartedly recommend it! Doody's Review Service 2010 It is written clearly and all the terms are explained, in a way which makes it supremely approachable for the general reader, even if they have little or no previous experience with the subject. Sachdev has an appealing way of presenting the cases as if he is having a conversation with the reader, and makes the patients (who are, of course, all unidentifiable) come alive with their own questions about the brain and what is going wrong. What he does particularly well is situate the patient within a context, of family, work and everyday life, rather than present them as floating free of any of these concerns. -- Sue Bond Metapsychology 2010 The Yipping Tiger and Other Tales from the Neuropsychiatric Clinic is an accessible example of the 'neurogothic'... referring to the eerie tales of what happens to people when their brains are damaged or disordered... It isn't just ghoulish curiosity that makes these stories appealing. Such cases are of intellectual interest because they undermine our everyday conception of ourselves as unified actors. Times Literary Supplement 2010