The Case for Love

My Adventures In Other Minds

A K Benjamin

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The Bodley Head Ltd
01 September 2021

Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Memoirs; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Doctor patient relationship; Clinical psychology

An exhilarating journey into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, from the acclaimed author of Let Me Not Be Mad

An exhilarating journey into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, from the acclaimed author of Let Me Not Be Mad.

What does it take to care for a stranger? Really care.

The Case for Love is a reflection on a career treating patients with brain trauma - people whose thoughts and feelings are largely unknowable - and how and why those treatments failed.

It is a reconstruction of three haunting cases in which the patients were tragically misunderstood - and an attempt through the power of the imagination to understand and make amends.

It describes the author's abandonment of his career and his tumultuous quest for healing and redemption.

It is also a story of intimate relationships, pets,

fatherhood and heartbreak, culminating in a moment of psychedelic transcendence and rebirth.

It is about the overpowering need for connection - and how, increasingly, we are trapped in ourselves.

It is a meditation on empathy and an act of atonement.

It is a unique, hybrid work of clinical case study and pure invention that destroys the boundary between fact and fiction in order to bring us face-to-face with the shocking, liberating truth.

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Praise for Let Me Not Be Mad

'Stunning- clever, troubling, restless, honest, dishonest; one of the best portraits of madness and clinical practice I've read' Olivia Laing

'Blackly comic, warmly compassionate, a unique take on the human mind offering uncomfortable universal truths' Stewart Lee

'Imagine a gonzo Oliver Sacks communing with Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose, R.D. Laing and the spirit of Kafka's 'The Country Doctor', and you still won't quite have the flavour of this wild and strikingly original book' William Fiennes

'A slow-burn belter of a book ... terrific ... so finely described, the result has the terse force of a classic short story' Roddy Doyle

'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat' Guardian

By: A K Benjamin
Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 143mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 294g
ISBN: 9781847926197
ISBN 10: 1847926193
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 September 2021
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad- A Story of Unravelling Minds.

Reviews for The Case for Love: My Adventures In Other Minds

Like a meeting of Oliver Sacks and Hunter S Thompson ... this is not a simple narrative of striking cases written by a far-seeing practitioner. It's a turbo-charged race -- Lisa Appignanesi * New Statesman * Imagine a gonzo Oliver Sacks communing with Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose, R.D. Laing and the spirit of Kafka's 'The Country Doctor', and you still won't quite have the flavour of this wild and strikingly original book -- William Fiennes A perfectly extraordinary - not to mention extraordinarily perfect - tense Hitchcockian psychodrama. I have rarely read a more haunting and enthralling account of a descent into madness. An important, profound and fascinating book -- Stephen Fry Let Me Not be Mad is stunning: clever, troubling, restless, honest, dishonest; one of the best portraits of madness and clinical practice I've read. I read it in two sittings. Extraordinary -- Olivia Laing Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat * Guardian (on Let Me Not Be Mad) *