title: Faked headaches becoming real.
abstract: In the gangster movie White Heat, the main character, Cody (played by James Cagney), suffers from 2 headache attacks. Here, I analyze these attacks by using the International Headache Society criteria, but an unequivocal diagnosis is not possible. Nevertheless, the attacks play an important role in the narrative and--as representation of something between "real" (mimesis) and not real--provide a ground for reflection on how to think of headache in general.
authors: Department of Neurology, Rijnland Hospital Leiderdorp, Leiderdorp, The Netherlands.
authors: Joost
authors: J
authors: Haan
mesh_terms: D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009040:Motion Pictures; D018781:Tension-Type Headache / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*