Francois Mai

Gebundenes Buch

With Hope in My Heart: Musings of a Spirited Psychiatrist

Beschreibung

Rarely do we see inside the life and mind of a psychiatrist, but that's exactly what we get in With Hope in My Heart: Musings of a Spirited Psychiatrist. With candor and openness, author François Mai shares how and why he ventured into psychiatry, the lure of academia, and his professional triumphs and troubles along the way. Educated in Apartheid-era South Africa, Mai takes his clinical practice across five countries: South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, the US, and Canada. Inspired by his time and adventures in these places, as well as his greatest influences, psychiatrists William Sargant and George Engel, this memoir is for a diverse audience. Readers eager to learn more about the history of psychiatry and its contemporary problems will enjoy Mai's commentary and professional anecdotes. Lovers of religion and spirituality contextualized in a secular society will appreciate the ways these intersect with Mai's professional and personal lives. With Hope in My Heart is more than a psychiatrist's memoir. It's a deeply intimate look into the life of a man who endures the death of a brother who had life-long schizophrenia, and himself had two life-threatening medical diagnoses. With themes of hope, Mai navigates readers through tumultuous terrain of spirituality, morality, politics, life, and death.

Autor

François Mai is the author of Diagnosing Genius: The Life and Death of Beethoven (McGill-Queens University Press, 2007) and Father, Unknown (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2017). His memoir about his career as a cyclist is almost ready for publication. For over fifty years, François practiced psychiatry in five different countries until retiring in 2014. He has written over 150 papers, many of which have appeared in peer-reviewed international medical and psychiatric journals. François is a member of the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Psychiatric Association, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Britannia Yacht Club in Ottawa, Ontario. When he's not crafting his next book, François enjoys cycling and swimming. François and his wife of sixty-two years and counting, Sarah Roelofse, divide their time between Victoria, British Columbia and Ottawa, Ontario. They have four adult sons and eleven grandchildren. You can follow his activities and keep up to date on his recent works by visiting www.francoismai.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: FriesenPress
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9781039149281
• ISBN-10: 1039149286
• Artikelnr.: 67599202