The Mind Has Mountains
The Mind Has Mountains

Author: Paul R. McHugh

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2006-01-10

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780801882494

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From strenuous opposition to physician-assisted suicide to a conviction that sex-correction surgery for newborns is cruel and misguided, Dr. Paul R. McHugh's opinions are strong and often controversial. In this collection of essays, McHugh demonstrates why he is one of the most thought-provoking figures in the academic world. These pieces argue for a realistic appraisal of just what psychiatrists know and how they know it, with the aim of indicating how such knowledge can best be used not only for better patient care but also to reflect on and influence public issues and social movements. His essays will stimulate professional and popular discussion about the goals and effectiveness of current psychiatric practice. McHugh sorts through the layers of what he terms the "culturally driven misdirection of psychiatry and psychotherapy" to explain concepts often misunderstood by nonscholars and the intellectual community alike. America's leading psychiatrist may inspire you or offend you, but he will certainly make you think.

The Mind Has Mountains
The Mind Has Mountains

Author: Mary Hocking

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1509819622

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Tom Norris has problems of his own, and chief among them is: who is he? It is a time of general stress and strain, for Tom is Assistant Education Officer to the South Sussex Council, and the County Hall, long threatened by wind and rain on its bleak headland, is about to meet its destruction at the hands of a Boundaries Commission. Where can its strange and unnerved inhabitants find another refuge? While Tom pursues his quest for identity and purpose, he reluctantly takes into his office Phoebe Huber, and otherwise rejected member of staff whose meek manner conceals a formidable gift for subversion. Tom begins by feeling sorry for Phoebe, but chaos is her natural element and she is better qualified than Tom to live in it. As little by little she takes possession of him, the South of England is hit by one of the worst blizzards in living memory. The snow blots out the familiar landscape, order breaks down both inside and outside the County Hall, the boundary between reality and fantasy grows indistinct, the wolf returns to the hills.

Mountains of the Mind
Mountains of the Mind

Author: Robert Macfarlane

Publisher: Granta

Published: 2009-07-02

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1847081576

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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places.

The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling
The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling

Author: Robert Pinsky

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1324001798

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Robert Pinsky, “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), gathers poems that cope with the most extreme human emotions. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion. Poems get under our skin; they offer solace with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Book of Poetry for Hard Times, former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky curates poems that explore the expanses of human emotion across centuries, from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood. Each poem reveals something new about our most profound and universal experiences; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry. “For anyone who knows these human feelings—and almost everyone does—this book will become an essential companion.”—Eavan Boland

Poetics of Imagining
Poetics of Imagining

Author: Richard Kearney

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780823218714

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With an extended foreword and an afterword chapter, and fascinating new material on the narrative imagination, Poetics of Imagining, Modern to Post-modern provides a critically developed and accessible account of the major theories of imagination in modern European thought.

The Mind of Christ
The Mind of Christ

Author: David Scott

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2006-11-16

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1441176411

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How does anyone 'put on the mind of Christ', as Scripture commands? Can people really get so close to Christ that they not only know his mind but also take on his thinking? And what does this mean for Christian discipleship, the Church, the ordinary person of faith? David Scott, writer and poet, has reflected on this central theme of Christianity over a lifetime's ministry in the Anglican church. He writes with engaging honesty about his personal thoughts and yet brings a theological rigour to his analysis. He combines a down-to-earth practicality with profound engagement with the texts of Scripture. The result is a gem of a book. He writes as follows in his introduction. 'Put on the mind of Christ: what that phrase, with its concentration on 'mind', does not immediately evoke is the way in which the rattle-bag of feelings about things, the heartaches, the heart searchings, the lifting up of the heart have coalesced and been informed by the sharper, tougher attitudes of mind. We shall see, in the case of Jesus, that those two concepts heart and mind, become one orientation, attitude, and spring for action. They also provide one unmoveable pointer for us to a destination we trust in, as we set out to know Christ, and be known by him, and so to enter into a creative relationship with the very centre of our faith.'

Still
Still

Author: Adam Thorpe

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1446498190

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' outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his own American present and his middle-class English families past. . ' John Fowles

A Piece of My Mind
A Piece of My Mind

Author: Gordon Parker

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-01-24

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1466820039

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Gordon Parker AO, one of Australia’s foremost clinical psychiatrists, is known for having strong and provocative views. He’s been described as 'charming, witty and erudite', sometimes 'intimidating and intolerant', and 'variously regarded with fear, loathing, admiration and respect'. In this autobiography, the founder of the Black Dog Institute and Scientia Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales recounts early formative experiences that eventually led to a career in psychiatry, and what he has, in turn, contributed to the profession over four decades. He also records his concerns about the current models for diagnosing and managing mood disorders, and their weighting to often politically-driven clinical guidelines. And he offers his views, informed by experience, research and respect for human resilience, on what is 'good psychiatry' and its rewards.

Han Shan, Chan Buddhism and Gary Snyder's Ecopoetic Way
Han Shan, Chan Buddhism and Gary Snyder's Ecopoetic Way

Author: Joan Qionglin Tan

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2009-05-07

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1837642567

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Presents a comparative study of the ninth-century Chinese poet and recluse Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and Gary Snyder, an American poet and environmental activist. This book explains how Chan Buddhism has the potential to be recognized as an important voice in contemporary ecopoetry.

Inspirations Unbidden
Inspirations Unbidden

Author: Daniel A. Harris

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-03-29

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0520314360

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.