Die zitternde Frau

"Siri Hustvedt has long been one of the most brilliant explorers of the brain and mind. Recently, however, she turned her research interest to herself: barely three years after her father's death, she suddenly found herself shaken by convulsions. Was this hysteria, a transmission, a random epileptic seizure? The Shaking Woman' - provocative and amusing, comprehensive and never aloof - tells of her efforts to find an answer to this. The result is an extraordinary double story: on the one hand, that of her intricate quest for knowledge, on the other, that of the great questions facing neuropsychiatry today. Siri Hustvedt's clever book intensifies our astonishment at the interplay of body and mind." Oliver Sacks.