• The author has decades of research and clinical experience and is an internationally recognized leader in brain neuroscience. He has appeared on nearly all the national news and lifestyle shows, including 20/20, World News Tonight, Good Morning America, the Today show, and on CNN. He also lectures extensively throughout the United States to lay and professional audiences and is an advisor to many executives and corporations.

During his career, Dr. Gary Small has witnessed some of the strangest of human behaviors, and for the first time, he opens the doors to his office for all to see. Combining elements of Sherlock Holmes and House, The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head is a spellbinding record of the doctor’s most bewildering cases, from naked headstands and hysterical blindness to shrinking penises and self amputations. It is also an illuminating journey into the mind of a practicing psychiatrist and his life in medicine as it evolves over time—a behind-the scenes look at the field and a variety of mental diseases as they’ve never been seen before.

Often funny, sometimes tragic, and always compelling, The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head moves from the halls of a crowded inner city Boston emergency room to the luxurious suites of a multi-million dollar mountaintop ski chalet and introduces a strange cast of true-life characters and conditions. Whether it is a sociopath leading two lives with two wives or a hysterical pregnancy, the potential of the mind is always in question. Throughout, Dr. Small sheds light on the human condition in both healthy and disturbed individuals, and provides touching moments sure to resonate with every reader.