'He can do what most consultants can't - translate medspeak into plain English'

'A radical new approach to keeping ourselves mentally healthy'

'He is the most eminent psychiatrist of the age...the guru of common sense'

A very funny, profound, soul-searching account of James' emotional journey . . . the story sits somewhere between The Catcher in the Rye and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Amazing! As hilarious as it is gripping. Our generation's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I love James's book! It completely captivated with wonderful and funny moments about the life and times of an OCD sufferer. Everyone should read it

I found it funny with many interesting moments

It is no wonder that Mel Brooks is a long-time friend and admirer of Bailey's writing. Maybe there's even a film character in the making

The particular strength of Bailey's book is that he is not afraid to show himself as deeply unpleasant

Bailey's vivid sense of humour means he relates his story with a knowing sense of the absurd . . . illuminating

A wonderful memoir

In a book that is partly a popular science treatise and partly a self-help manual... he interweaves life stories and clinical evidence in an engaging and informative manner... He is grappling with one of the most important questions for our times

In his 2007 book Musicophilia, psychiatrist Oliver Sacks warned that although neuroscience offers exciting insights, 'there is always a certain danger that the simple art of observation may be lost, that clinical description may become perfunctory, and the richness of the human context ignored'. Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge, UK, rises to the challenge in his latest book by combining basic science and clinical observation in an attempt to explain human cruelty... We should take Baron-Cohen's accessible book as an invitation to leave the comforts of smaller, more tractable problems in a genuine attempt to address larger social issues