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Previous Volume 354:2840-2841 June 29, 2006 Number 26

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(Neurology Reference Series.) Edited by Mark Hallett, Stanley Fahn, Joseph Jankovic, Anthony E. Lang, C. Robert Cloninger, and Stuart C. Yudofsky. 353 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. $99. ISBN 0-7817-9627-X.

Psychogenic movement disorders are difficult to understand and treat, so writing a book about them is challenging. The topic straddles two distinct professions and traditions — neurology and psychology — which, in my experience, often clash in their interpretation of these problems. Some of this dissonance is manifest in this book's pages.

Psychogenic Movement Disorders begins with a description of the topic's historical background. This history is richer, better described, and more germane to the subject than many other topics in medicine. In fact, Jean-Martin Charcot and other 19th-century researchers are cited throughout the book as frequently as current investigators . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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