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The Psychology of the Greatest Cad and Bounder Ever in the World - Dr Cosmo Duff-Gordon defends his ancestor - the first man to get off the Titanic

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Dr Cosmo Duff-Gordon is an eminent psychologist who created a completely new clinic that specialises in treating addicts - but his ancestor is the infamous Cosmo Duff-Gordon who it is claimed got into lifeboad number 1 as the Titanic sank when it was meant to be women and children first off the sinking wreck. It is claimed he dressed up as a woman to get into the life-boat and also that he bribed the rowers to row away from survivors in the water and not go back to rescue them. The cad and bounder was named the number one Cad of the twentieth century and also featured in the James Cameron hit movie 'Titanic'. Does the psychology of having this notorious ancestor drive someone like the modern day Dr Cosmo Duff-Gordon to rescue people? Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud probes the psychology of having a 'wrong 'un' dogging your past.

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An addictions counsellor explains the essence of personal change

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app.

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Jane Janse van Rensburg is a counsellor and part of the multi-professional team at White River Manor Clinic in South Africa - designed to help those recovering from addictions, alcohol dependency and substance abuse problems. She talks to Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud about what works and what doesn't in therapy, and why therapy is a lot more like work than most people realise.

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Psychology of the Professional Executive Who Starts to Drink Too Much

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app.

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Clare outwardly had everything anyone could possibly want - a top executive with a glittering career - a loving husband - wonderful children - yet something wasn't quite right on the inside, as she candidly admits in this searingly honest interview with Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud, and it led to problems with drinking - an explicit no holds barred account of a slide into trouble and an inspiring story of hope for recovery. The picture is of one of the rooms in White River Manor - the recovery centre that helped Clare.

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The Serotonin Story - Depression Myth or Medical Miracle? Professor Joanna Moncrieff talks to Dr Raj Persaud

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Prof Joanna Moncrieff

Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry

Epidemiology & Applied Clinical Research

Division of Psychiatry

Research summary

My research consists of an analysis of all aspects of psychiatric drug treatment, including subjective experiences, history of drug treatment, a critique of evidence for drug treatments, theoretical perspectives on psychiatric drug treatment, and political aspects of drug treatment, including work on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. I am also interested in the nature and function of diagnosis in modern psychiatric practice, and in the history, politics and philosophy of psychiatry more generally. I have written two books: The Myth of the Chemical Cure, published by Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=283272 and A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs, published by PCCs books http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/product.php?xProd=463&xSec=1&jssCart=951d6cfb50d466e4f830c58cadfd75d6

  LATEST BOOK – A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs: The truth about how they work and how to come off them. Second Edition

In an era when more people are taking psychiatric drugs than ever before, Joanna Moncrieff’s explosive book challenges the claims for their mythical powers. Drawing on extensive research, she demonstrates that psychiatric drugs do not ‘treat’ or ‘cure’ mental illness by acting on hypothesised chemical imbalances or other abnormalities in the brain. There is no evidence for any of these ideas. Moreover, any relief the drugs may offer from the distress and disturbance of a mental disorder can come at great cost to people’s physical health and their ability to function in day-to-day life. And, once on these drugs, coming off them can be very difficult indeed. This book is a wake-up call to the potential damage we are doing to ourselves by relying on chemical cures for human distress. Its clear, concise explanations will enable people to make a fully informed decision about the benefits and harms of these drugs and whether and how to come off them if they so choose.

Click here to buy this book from the publisher’s website

Click here to buy this book on Amazon

‘This is a brilliant book. It offers an incisive, clear and evidence based appraisal of psychiatric drugs, arriving at just the right time to counter the growing controversy and confusion in this area. I could not think of a more respected and credible guide to take us through this tricky terrain. This book should be compulsory reading for anyone working in mental health. I would also recommend it for anyone holding a more personal interest in the subject.’ – –Dr James Davies, Reader in Social Anthropology & Mental Health, University of Roehampton, and author of Cracked: why psychiatry is doing more harm than good.

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Who Really Saved Freud From Himself? Andrew Nagorski talks to psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud

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Saving Freud

The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom

By Andrew Nagorski

  Andrew Nagorski served as Newsweek’s bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, and Berlin. He is the author of seven previous critically acclaimed books, including Hitlerland and The Nazi Hunters. He has also written for countless publications. Visit him at AndrewNagorski.com.

A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud’s last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible. In March 1938, German soldiers crossed the border into Austria and Hitler absorbed the country into the Third Reich. Anticipating these events, many Jews had fled Austria, but the most famous Austrian Jew remained in Vienna, where he had lived since early childhood. Sigmund Freud was eighty-one years old, ill with cancer, and still unconvinced that his life was in danger. But several prominent people close to Freud thought otherwise, and they began a coordinated effort to persuade Freud to leave his beloved Vienna and emigrate to England. The group included a Welsh physician, Napoleon’s great-grandniece, an American ambassador, Freud’s devoted youngest daughter Anna, and his personal doctor. Saving Freud is the story of how this remarkable collection of people finally succeeded in coaxing Freud, a man who seemingly knew the human mind better than anyone else, to emerge from his deep state of denial about the looming catastrophe, allowing them to extricate him and his family from Austria so that they could settle in London. There Freud would live out the remaining sixteen months of his life in freedom. This book is both an incisive new biography of Freud and a group biography of the extraordinary friends who saved Freud’s life.

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Will Robots Choose What Drugs We Take in the Future? Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud talks to a pioneer of AI drug discovery

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Peter Richardson

https://www.benevolent.com/team/peter-richardson

  VP Pharmacology

Peter Richardson serves as VP Pharmacology at BenevolentAI. He was a founding member of Cambridge Biotechnology Ltd in 2001 and served as CSO and Executive Director until 2005. Peter pioneered the sale of CBT to Proximagen Ltd, to whom he acted as an adviser until 2012. Between 1989 and 2006 he served as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge where he pioneered research into drug discovery for Parkinson’s disease and inflammation, as well as new gene expression technologies. He is the author of over 70 peer-reviewed scientific papers. Peter studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, and was awarded a doctorate in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge.

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What Does Luxury Treatment in Psychiatry Look Like - Raj Persaud lifts the veil on how the wealthy get psychological help

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George Georgas, Business Development Manager, talks to Dr Raj Persaud about the luxury treatment centre in South Africa attracting patients from all over the world. 

About White River Manor

https://www.whiterivermanor.com/about/

Surrounded by majestic beauty in the heart of the stunning African bushveld, White River Manor provides the perfect tranquil environment for discerning individuals seeking professional help for addiction, trauma and burnout. With decades of professional experience in addiction and wellness treatment, the Manor was founded in 2015 with passion and purpose. This classic country hotel – a stately heritage home nestled in a 100-year old lush garden – was soon transformed into a world-class facility offering luxury accommodation, state-of-the-art facilities and a dedicated commitment to your recovery.

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The Reluctant Carer talks to Dr Raj Persaud

'Incredible. One of those rare books that should be dispensed on prescription to every household.' - Lucy Easthope, author of When the Dust Settles 'Hilarious, bitter, poignant and profound . . . like an existential soap opera - only with more laughs.' - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan It was the kind of phone call we all dread. Your elderly father has been admitted to hospital. Your even older mum is now at home alone. The answer? Simple. Drop everything, go back and help. The reality? Not so straightforward. Suddenly, you’re a kid again, stranded in the overheated house you grew up in. Soon they need you 24/7. And you want to help, of course you do. But now your own life starts to unravel almost as quickly as their health. And then there is nowhere else to go. In between bouts of washing, feeding, cooking and fighting there are times that test you, days where everything goes wrong and moments when everyone, miraculously rises to the occasion. And amidst all of that, this strange second childhood offers up a shot at redemption - if you can just stop everyone from falling down. Irresistibly funny, unflinching and deeply moving, this is a love letter to family and friends, to carers and to anyone who has ever packed a small bag intent on staying for just a few days. This is a true story of what it really means to be a carer, and of the ties that bind even tighter when you least expect it. This is The Reluctant Carer.

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What does driving across the length of Africa in a 1950's Land Rover teach us about modern masculinity?

Trans-Africa Land-Rover

7 reviews

by Porter Press International

Current price£ 30.00 GBP

Please note: £30 is the special price for non-trade customers who purchase this book directly from Porter Press.

The story of Philip Kohler and his epic overland adventure

by Martin Port

When Philip Kohler left his native South Australia in 1955, his sights were firmly set on the UK, yet his continued appetite for travel eventually led him to Northern Rhodesia – a move that would ultimately see him fulfil a deeply held desire to complete a solo crossing of the Sahara desert.

With only his thoughts and the mechanical outpourings of his Series II Land-Rover for company, Kohler spent three years traversing his way across a remarkable continent that was in the midst of revolution and change – documenting his journey with his trusted Leica camera – before arriving back in London in the latter half of 1962.

The adventure provided not just new experiences, but also shaped the rest of his professional life – his photographic ability, as well as a chance encounter with John Wayne, resulting in a hugely successful career in the international film industry. Lavishly illustrated with the beautiful photographs that he took along the way, and written by award-winning author Martin Port, this new book from Porter Press International tells the story of Philip Kohler and his trans-African Land-Rover.

A unique collection of photographs and documents that charts Kohler’s journey from Australia to Europe, including superb colour images of 1950s London.

The epic story of Kohler’s overland adventure across Africa and Europe in his 1959 Series II Land-Rover – one that was undertaken without sponsorship or assistance.

Illustrated with more than 300 photographs – most of which are in beautifully preserved colour – that Kohler took along the route, including a solo crossing of the Sahara desert.

The full story of Kohler’s encounters with Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox while in Africa, which led to him working as location/production manager on nearly 40 films, including The Empire Strikes Back, Full Metal Jacket and numerous Bond movies.

How this remarkable one-owner Land-Rover, which remained with the family until 2016, made an emotional return to the road after 20 years of inactivity.

Specifications: 

ISBN: 978-1-913089-29-0

280 x 240mm, 144 pages

Jacketed hardback

Over 300 period photographs and original documents

The Author

Martin Port has owned and run classic cars for 30 years – from humble Morris Minor to AC Buckland and Porsche 912 – but his overwhelming passion is for classic Land-Rovers.

Since buying his first as an antidote to Porsche ownership, he has travelled through Europe and North Africa at the wheel of various examples and has been the proud owner of the 1959 Trans-Africa Series II since 2016, using the 63-year-old example as his preferred daily mode of transport.

Martin has been working as a graphic designer, writer and photographer since graduating from art college in 1993 and was Classic & Sports Car’s art editor for 16 years before embarking on a freelance career in 2019.

He is author of JUE 477: the Remarkable History & Restoration of the World’s First Production Land Rover, Mini Scrapbook: 60 years of a British icon and JCB Scrapbook: celebrating 75 years of engineering innovation, and designer of Camel Trophy: The Definitive History – all published by Porter Press International.

He has written for Land Rover Monthly, Classic Land Rover, Classic & Sports Car, Octane and Magneto and is editor of the Series 2 Club magazine, Built 2 Last.   

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How To Cope When Your Life Changes Irrevocably, Dramatically and Completely But In An Instant

Vajrin Malin qualified as a doctor from Bristol Medical School in 1985. His postgraduate medical training was mostly in London, initially in Infectious Diseases. This took him to a lecturer position in Zimbabwe for two years where he had an interest in TB in HIV. He then undertook a PhD on TB vaccine design and finally completed his training including Infectious Diseases, Respiratory and General Medicine. He recently retired from 20 years as Respiratory Consultant in Bath. He's had a lifelong interest in training and education. In addition to his time in Africa, he was College Tutor for the Royal College of Physicians, Foundation Programme Director, Director of Medical Education in his hospital trust and Associate Postgraduate Dean for Health Education England (HEE) South West. He sat on the council for the NACT UK holding the office of Honorary Treasurer then Honorary Secretary. His HEE responsibilities included providing professional support for postgraduate trainees (PSW) and Supported Return to Training (SuppoRTT). He's taught in Uganda, he has been a NACT Eugene Meyer Travelling Fellow to North Carolina and written several documents for NACT. He was a keen triathlete competing in Ironman events, marathons and long distance cycle holidays with his wife and friends. He was ordained and given the name Vajrin (previously Adam) in the Western Buddhist Order (now Triratna) 16 years ago. 

  Sadly, in February 2020, whilst undertaking a 3000km off-road cycle trip the length of New Zealand, he fell 20m down the gorge leaving him permanently paralysed from his chest down. However, he's had excellent rehabilitation, initially in Auckland and later Salisbury and Stoke Mandeville spinal units. After a stormy period in the first year of his spinal cord injury (four neurosurgical operations for a swollen spinal cord - SPAM). He is now back working one day a week for HEE seeing trainees and running a South West programme on supporting trainees who’ve had a break of 3 months or more. His interests include health and well-being, coaching (ILM5 trained), burnout, educational leadership and educational systems.

  Selection of articles

Supporting Locally Employed Doctors (LEDs) across the UK: The non-consultant non-training doctors. NACT UK 2017 (currently being updated)

Putting an end to Black Wednesday: improving patient safety by achieving comprehensive trust induction and mandatory training by day 1 - Clinical Medicine 2016

Vaccinia expression of mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85 and ESAT-6 secreted proteins - Microbes Infect. 2000

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in Zimbabwe - Lancet 1995

Leprosy in reaction: a medical emergency. Lesson of the Week - British Medical Journal 1991

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How to stop worrying - Gwendoline Smith talks to Dr Raj Persaud

GWENDOLINE SMITH - PSYCHOLOGIST, AUTHOR AND SPEAKER

Trained as a clinical psychologist in the 1970’s, we were introduced to a bit of everything, sex therapy, behavioural therapy, couples therapy, working with phobias, depression, addictions and schizophrenia. The pallet of learning was extensive.

As a combined result of my experience I specialise in:

Depression

Anxiety

Work-related stress

Worry

Social anxiety

PTSD

I mostly work with adults and young adults. In today’s ‘urban jungle’, anxiety, in my opinion, prevails as the epidemic. The anxiety of the ‘Facebook’ world and brand advertising and social images of perfection, do take their toll in the youth as illustrated by youth suicide.

For adults, the same – work stress, lifestyle balance impact on relationships, anxiety accumulates and collapses the system into depression.

My approach is integrated, in that I will use whatever I see as offering the biggest contribution to the well-being of the individual. This often means borrowing from different schools of thought. I integrate a great deal of the cognitive behavioural approach into my work.

I also work alongside doctors and psychiatrists and am very literate in the appropriate uses of medication.

  The Book of Knowing: Know How You Think, Change How You Feel (Gwendoline Smith - Improving Mental Health Series) 07-Jan-2021

by Gwendoline Smith

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£3.99 £8.99

  Written in an accessible and humorous style, this book teaches you to know what's going on in your mind and how to get your feelings under control. It'll help you adapt and feel better about your place in the world.

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How To Deal With Money Stress - the seven dollar millionaire confides with the psychiatrist

The Little Book of Zen Money: A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind

Seven Dollar Millionaire

ISBN: 978-1-119-85969-7 April 2022 304 Pages

DESCRIPTION

At last, a mindful book about money that anyone can appreciate and understand

The Little Book of Zen Money: A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind delivers easy-to-follow steps for combining sensible saving strategies with mindfulness practices to achieving financial peace of mind. Finally, you can know how to fix your finances without feeling stressed out!

In this book, you’ll find out that sound financial strategy is far more straightforward than the financial industry wants you to think. It reveals the path to mindful money simplicity, showing readers how to adopt behaviors that encourage responsible saving and spending.

You’ll learn about:

How to journal your spending and saving so you keep track of the money you have coming in and going out

Easy mindfulness exercises, mantras, and meditations that keep you centered, rational, and calm when it comes to your money

Simple explanations of the financial industry and how to invest responsibly that anyone can understand

Perfect for anyone who doesn’t usually like books about money (or the complicated jargon they’re often filled with), The Little Book of Zen Money proves that you don’t need to be an expert, professional, or mathematician to get great financial advice.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

THE SEVEN DOLLAR MILLIONAIRE is a group of financial literacy enthusiasts, who make learning about money accessible and engaging, and the author of Happy Ever After: Financial Freedom Isn’t a Fairy Tale. They were quoted in the Financial Times in November 2020 saying “No one thinks about being financially literate per se. But they do want to be financially secure, to not be in debt and misery”.

Seven Dollar Millionaire

Did you know that the smallest amount of money you need to save and invest (at a 7% return) to become a millionaire over your career is just seven dollars? No, nor did the Seven Dollar Millionaire until his daughter asked him if she could become a millionaire, and what was the smallest amount she could start with. That question turned into the book "Happy Ever After", his new nickname and a lifetime commitment to teaching the concepts that can help all of us achieve financial security.

Having worked in the financial sector for more than 20 years, he has managed billion-dollar deals, invested hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, and won multiple awards - but helping people make the most of their circumstances, whether they are migrant workers or his own daughter, is worth so much more.

You can find out more of the Seven Dollar Millionaire's secrets, at this page of his website https://www.sevendollarmillionaire.com/secrets/ and here is an example of one of the fairytales from Happy Ever After, along with its wonderful hand-drawn illustration by Jo Sanders: https://www.sevendollarmillionaire.com/2021/02/21/the-emperors-new-money-2/

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The Psychology of the Ukrainian Soldier - interview with a Psychologist who treats them

Does predicting the outcome of the war in Ukraine rest more on understanding the psychology of the Ukrainian soldier, than any other factor?

Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud is in conversation with Dmytro Assonov, MD, MSc

Assistant professor at the department of medical psychology, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Clinical psychologist at the Hospital for War Veterans "Forest Glade" of Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

  PhD thesis (currently writing) is related to the resilience of Ukrainian veterans.

  You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app.

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Mental Health of Ukraine - A psychiatrist based there explains

The photograph accompanying this podcast is of Orest Suvalo, a volunteer and a psychiatrist in #Ukraine, speaks with patients at a medical point set up above Lviv Central Station.

A doctor and psychiatrist, Orest Suvalo, talks to Dr Raj Persaud about the mental health situation in Ukraine

From The Guardian Newspaper

‘They draw bombs, tanks and wishes for peace’: Ukraine’s child mental health crisis

Theatre workshops and art classes have sprung up to offer temporary respite from war as doctors warn of widespread trauma

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/15/ukraine-child-mental-health-crisis

Two days after Russian forces entered Ukraine, on 26 February, the country’s public military administration requested that a psychological support system be put in place at Lviv train station.

Thousands of women and children were passing through the station, 80km (50 miles) from the border with Poland, and the need for doctors and psychiatrists to support the displaced was immediately clear.

“The first week was very difficult,” says Dr Orest Suvalo, psychiatrist and coordinator of the support centre. “There were people arriving from Kyiv and Kharkiv who showed critical signs of distress. Many children, but also adults, were panicking, looking for shelters and buses to Poland.’’

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Can you achieve more Good Luck in your life?

  CONNECT THE DOTS

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CREATING GOOD LUCK

“A wise, exciting, and life-changing book”

- Arianna Huffington

  Modern life can feel like an endless sequence of cancelled plans, last-minute meetings and delayed journeys. So how can we use unpredictability to our advantage? LSE and NYU academic Dr Christian Busch has spent a decade exploring how we can use uncertainty as a pathway to more joyful, purposeful and successful lives. In this book, he reveals the secrets behind the hidden force that rules the universe: serendipity. 

  The book is based on cutting-edge research in the natural and social sciences, as well as hundreds of interviews including with leading CEOs, entrepreneurs, and changemakers from around the world who turned the unexpected into opportunity by seeing and connecting the dots. Anchored in a science-based framework and peppered with inspiring stories and hands-on exercises, it captures how all of us can cultivate serendipity and turn uncertainty into opportunity, joy, and sustained success.

  Dr. Christian Busch is an expert in entrepreneurship, social innovation, and purpose-driven business. He teaches at New York University (NYU) and at the London School of Economics (LSE), and directs the NYU Global Economy Program. He is a co-founder of Leaders on Purpose and the author of The Serendipity Mindset: The Art & Science of Creating Good Luck. 

Previously, he served as Inaugural Deputy Director at the LSE's Innovation Centre and co-founded the Sandbox Network, a community of young innovators. He is part of the World Economic Forum's Expert Forum, and has been named as 'top emerging management thinker' (Thinkers50), 'Top 99 Influencer' (Diplomatic Courier), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).

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What Can Grief Teach Us About Ourselves?

Grief and Grieving a guide for the confused

https://michael.cholbi.com/

Grief: A Philosophical Guide published by Princeton University Press

Michael Cholbi

An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief—and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us grow

Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us—as universal as it is painful—is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new insights about what grief is, whom we grieve, and how grief can ultimately lead us to a richer self-understanding and a fuller realization of our humanity. Drawing on psychology, social science, and literature as well as philosophy, Cholbi explains that we grieve for the loss of those in whom our identities are invested, including people we don’t know personally but cherish anyway, such as public figures. Their deaths not only deprive us of worthwhile experiences; they also disrupt our commitments and values. Yet grief is something we should embrace rather than avoid, an important part of a good and meaningful life. The key to understanding this paradox, Cholbi says, is that grief offers us a unique and powerful opportunity to grow in self-knowledge by fashioning a new identity. Although grief can be tumultuous and disorienting, it also reflects our distinctly human capacity to rationally adapt as the relationships we depend on evolve. An original account of how grieving works and why it is so important, Grief shows how the pain of this experience gives us a chance to deepen our relationships with others and ourselves.

  The pandemic has flooded the world with grief, but we’re not in a ‘grief pandemic’

Michael Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely in ethical theory, practical ethics, and the philosophy of death and dying. His books include Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (Broadview, 2011), Understanding Kant’s Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and Grief: A Philosophical Guide (Princeton University Press, expected 2021). He is the editor of several scholarly collections, including Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015); Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights (Routledge, 2017); The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income (Routledge, 2019); and The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is the the co-editor of the textbook Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, forthcoming 2020).  His work has also appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including Ethics, Mind, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics. In recent years, he has been an acdemic visitor at Australian National University, the University of Turku (Finland), and the Hastings Center - Bioethics Research Insitute.

His current research interests are

Kantian ethics, particularly respect for persons, equality, and rational agency

death and dying, including suicide and assisted dying, immortality, and grief

ethics of work and labor

paternalism

procreative and parental ethics

Qualifications

Ph.D, University of Virginia, 1999 [President's Fellow and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellow]

Responsibilities & affiliations

Founder,  International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying

Editorial board, Journal of Applied Philosophy

Board of advisors, Social Theory and Practice

Area editor (Ethics), Ergo

International advisory board, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Former editor, Teaching Philosophy

Multiple roles within the American Philosophical Association, including Divisional Executive Committe Member, the Committe on Teaching Philosophy, and the Committee on Public Philosophy

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Can you do therapy with no money?

https://readinglist.click/sub/in-madness-stories-of-uncertainty-and-hope-sean-baumann-argues-for-a-more-inclusive-way-of-making-sense-of-mental-health/

In Madness: Stories of Uncertainty and Hope, Sean Baumann argues for a more inclusive way of making sense of mental health

Madness: Stories of Uncertainty and Hope by Sean Baumann is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

‘This book has irrevocably changed my understanding of madness. Through succinct and often poetic accounts Baumann carefully mediates access to glimpses of the brave, fearful, lonely and vulnerable humanities of those suffering from psychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia. The text, illuminated by extraordinary artwork, compels one to believe that beyond all the distress and despair, there is, and always should be, hope.’ – Antjie Krog

For many of us, what lies beyond conventional portrayals of mental illness is often shrouded in mystery, misconception and fear.

Sean Baumann spent decades as a psychiatrist at Valkenberg Hospital and, through his personal engagement with patients’ various forms of psychosis, he describes the lived experiences of those who suffer from schizophrenia, depression, bipolar and other disorders.

A patient is standing in the middle of the river, his back turned to the hospital. The nurses are waiting for him patiently on the riverbank. He seems uncertain whether to cross the river or to return. There is no danger. He is in an in-between space, as is the hospital where I have worked as a specialist psychiatrist for over 25 years.

The stories told are authentic, mysterious and compelling, representing both vivid expressions of minds in turmoil and the struggle to give form and meaning to distress. The author seeks to describe these encounters in a respectful way, believing that careless portrayals of madness cause further suffering and perpetuate the burden of stigma.

Baumann argues cogently for a more inclusive way of making sense of mental health. With sensitivity and empathy, his enquiries into the territories of art, psychology, consciousness, otherness, free will and theories of the self reveal how mental illness raises questions that affect us all.

Madness is illustrated by award-winning artist Fiona Moodie.

Ebook available from Amazon, Kobo, Snapplify and ITSI.

About the author

Dr Sean Baumann worked for 25 years as a consultant to the male acute service at Valkenberg Hospital in Cape Town and was a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at UCT, where he holds an honorary position. He is the editor of Primary Care Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Southern Africa (1998, 2007, 2015). His cantata Madness: Songs of Hope and Despair was performed at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town in 2017.

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