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 an (...)
March 23, 2007
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The Mind Has MountainsReflections on Society and PsychiatryPaul R. McHughThe Johns Hopkins University Press, $25, 272 pp.
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