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The Mind Has Mountains

Author : Paul R. McHugh
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882494
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Mind Has Mountains written by Paul R. McHugh and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Mary Hocking
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509819622
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Mind Has Mountains written by Mary Hocking and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Granta
ISBN 13 : 1847081576
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Mountains of the Mind written by Robert Macfarlane and published by Granta. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324001798
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling written by Robert Pinsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823218714
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Poetics of Imagining written by Richard Kearney and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : David Scott
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441176411
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Mind of Christ written by David Scott and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Adam Thorpe
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446498190
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Still written by Adam Thorpe and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' 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

Author : Gordon Parker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466820039
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book A Piece of My Mind written by Gordon Parker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Joan Qionglin Tan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837642567
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Han Shan, Chan Buddhism and Gary Snyder's Ecopoetic Way written by Joan Qionglin Tan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Daniel A. Harris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520314360
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Inspirations Unbidden written by Daniel A. Harris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Children of Silence

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231050494
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Children of Silence written by Michael Wood and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20th century fiction

Elizabeth Jennings

Author : Dana Greene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192562053
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Jennings written by Dana Greene and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Jennings was one of the most popular, prolific, and widely anthologized lyric poets in the second half of the twentieth century. This first biography, based on extensive archival research and interviews with Jennings's contemporaries, integrates her life and work and explores the 'inward war' the poet experienced as a result of her gender, religion, and mental fragility. Originally associated with the Movement, Jennings was sui generis, believing poetry was 'communication' and 'communion.' She wrote of nature, friendship, childhood, religion, love, and art, endearing her to a wide audience. Yet lifelong depression, unbearable loneliness, unrelenting fears, poverty, and physical illness plagued her. These were exacerbated by her gender in a male-dominated literary world and an inherited Catholic worldview which initially inculcated guilt and shame. However, a tenacious drive to be a poet made her, 'the most unconditionally loved writer of her generation.' Although her claim was that the poem is not the poet, her life is tracked in her voluminous published and unpublished poetry and prose. The themes of mental illness, the importance of place, the problems associated with being an unmarried woman artist, her relationship with literary mentors and younger poets, her non-feminist feminism, and her marginality and sympathy for the outcast are all explored. It was poetry which saved her; it helped her push back darkness and discover order in the midst of chaos. Poetry was her raison d'etre. It was her life.

Cracking The Gre Literature In English Subject Test, 6th Edition

Author : Doug McMullen
Publisher : Princeton Review
ISBN 13 : 0375429719
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Cracking The Gre Literature In English Subject Test, 6th Edition written by Doug McMullen and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each test-preparation handbook is designed to help students achieve high scores on a particular exam and includes thorough reviews of the subject matter, practice questions with detailed answer explanations and helpful test-taking skills.

Essays on the Aristotelian Tradition

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198250685
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Aristotelian Tradition written by Anthony Kenny and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During most of the Christian millennia Aristotle has been the most influential of all philosophers. This selection of essays by the eminent philosopher and Aristotle scholar Anthony Kenny traces this influence through the ages. Particular attention is given to Aristotle's ethics and philosophyof mind, showing how they provided the framework for much fruitful development in the Middle Ages and again in the present century. Also included are some contributions to the most recent form of Aristotelian scholarship, computer-assisted stylometry. All who work on Aristotle and his intellectuallegacy will find much to interest them in these Essays on the Aristotelian Tradition.

Secret Selves

Author : Stephen Prickett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501372483
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Secret Selves written by Stephen Prickett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves – and how we have created and written about them – from the Old Testament to social media. What he finds is that although our secret, inner, sense of self – what we feel makes us distinctively 'us' – seems a natural and permanent part of being human, it is in fact surprisingly new. Whilst confessional religious writings, from Augustine to Jane Austen, or even diaries of 20th-century Holocaust victims, have explored inwards as part of a path to self-discovery, our inner space has expanded beyond any possible personal experience. This development has enhanced our capacity not merely to write about what we have never seen, but even to create fantasies and impossible fictions around them. Yet our secret selves can also be a source of terror. The fringes of our inner worlds are often porous, ill-defined and susceptible to frightening forms of external control. Mystics and poets, from Dante to John Henry Newman or Gerard Manley Hopkins, sought God in their secret spaces not least because they feared the 'abyss beneath.' From the origin of human consciousness through modern history and into the future, Secret Selves uses literature to consider the profound possibilities and ramifications of our evolving ideas of self.

The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney

Author : Andrew Hodgson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030309711
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney written by Andrew Hodgson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attends to four poets – John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney – whose poems are remarkable for their personal directness and distinctiveness. It shows how their writing conveys a potently individual quality of feeling, perception, and experience: each poet responds with unusual commitment to the Romantic idea of art as personal expression. The book looks closely at the vitality and intricacy of the poets’ language, the personal candour of their subject matter, and their sense, obdurate but persuasive, of their own strangeness. As it traces the tact and imagination with which each of the four writers realises the possibilities of individualism in lyric, it affirms the vibrancy of their contributions to nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry.

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

Author : Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141397853
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book As Kingfishers Catch Fire written by Gerard Manley Hopkins and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Hopkins' Poems and Prose is available in Penguin Classics.