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Mathew N. Schmalz March 19, 2007 - 2:32pm
The Mind Has Mountains
Reflections on Society and Psychiatry
Paul R. McHugh
The Johns Hopkins University Press, $25, 272 pp.
The Mind Has Mountains is a long and uneven feast of a book made up of seventeen essay-length courses. The author, Paul R. McHugh, is former director of psychiatry at the medical school of the Johns Hopkins University. As an appetizer, McHugh offers stories of psychiatric misadventure and therapy gone awry. The main course consists of essays related to the cultures of life and death, particularly as revealed in the cases of Dr. Jack...
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