The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves by Hustvedt, Siri
The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves by Hustvedt, Siri

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves

In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition While speaking at...
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Author: Siri Hustvedt
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Language: English
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The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves by Hustvedt, Siri

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves

$46.60
The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves by Hustvedt, Siri

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves

$46.60
Author: Siri Hustvedt
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition

While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. It was as if she had suddenly become two people: a calm orator and a shuddering wreck. Then the seizures happened again and again.

The Shaking Woman tracks Hustvedt's search for a diagnosis, one that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific disciplines, each one of which offers a distinct perspective on her paroxysms but no ready solution. In the process, she finds herself entangled in fundamental questions: What is the relationship between brain and mind? How do we remember? What is the self?

During her investigations, Hustvedt joins a discussion group in which neurologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and brain scientists trade ideas to develop a new field: neuropsychoanalysis. She volunteers as a writing teacher for psychiatric in-patients at the Payne Whitney clinic in New York City and unearths precedents in medical history that illuminate the origins of and shifts in our theories about the mind-body problem.

In The Shaking Woman, Hustvedt synthesizes her experience and research into a compelling mystery: Who is the shaking woman? In the end, the story she tells becomes, in the words of George Makari, author ofRevolution in Mind, a brilliant illumination for us all.

Author: Siri Hustvedt
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 12/07/2010
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780312429577


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/30/2011 pg. 24

About the Author
Siri Hustvedt is the author of The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, The Sorrows of an American, What I Loved, The Blindfold, and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, as well as the collections of essays, A Plea for Eros and Mysteries of the Rectangle. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Paul Auster.


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