title: The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry
author: Paul R. McHugh MD
description: <P>"Wise words from a wise man."</P> (Naomi Schaefer Riley <i>Wall Street Journal</i>)<br /><br /><P>"Paul McHugh is such a wonderful writer, and so brilliant a theorist, that reading him is at once an aesthetic delight and a gripping intellectual adventure. The pleasure provided by these essayswhich are enriched and enlivened by fascinating stories drawn from decades of clinical experienceis heightened by the brilliant light they cast on the true nature of psychiatry and on those mountains of the mind that Dr. McHugh never stops struggling to fathom and to climb."</P> (Norman Podhoretz, Editor-at-Large, <I>Commentary</I>)<br /><br /><P>"Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins is the man who rescued modern psychiatry from a coven of flaming nut cases with medical degrees who actually believed in such lunatic notions as 'recovered memory,' 'sexual reassignment,' 'multiple personality disorder,' 'physician-assisted suicide,' 'Vietnam-specific post traumatic stress syndrome' and destroyed innumerable lives as long as they held sway. Dr. McHugh describes his battle against them and in the process gives us a realistic picture and philosophy of the human condition."</P> (Tom Wolfe, author of <I>Bonfire of the Vanities</I> and <I>The Right Stuff</I>)<br /><br /><P>"Paul McHugh has one of the finest minds, and sharpest tongues, in American psychiatry. He has collected some of the most foolish and misguided claims of his colleagues and examined them with crisp logic, common sense, clinical expertise, and scientific sophistication. I have never had so much fun while being educated, or so much education while having fun."</P> (Robert Michels, M.D., Cornell University Medical College)<br /><br /><P>"Paul McHugh is one of the best and most original writers in psychiatry or psychology. He is iconoclastic, idealistic, deeply informed, and is one of the most important influences on generations of psychiatric researchers and clinicians. <I>The Mind Has Mountains</I> is the essence of McHugh's ideas. No one will agree with everything he writesI don'tbut no one who reads this book will remain unaffected by the clarity and importance of his thinking. He is a teacher of the first rank."</P> (Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and author of <I>An Unquiet Mind</I>)<br /><br /><P>"McHugh writes clearly in a straightforward manner that laymen will find gratifying... thought provoking and entertaining."</P> (John Lewis <i>Baltimore Magazine</i>)<br /><br /><P>"Paul McHugh... enjoys a little bit of controversy. He likes to poke and prod at some of the shibboleths... of psychiatry... You may not agree, but he should make you think."</P> (Mark Welch, Ph.D. <i>Metapsychology</i>)<br /><br /><P>"Elegantly clear, concise, jargon-free."</P> (<i>Hopkins Medicine</i>)<br /><br /><P>"This is a refreshing book... both in its moral stance and in the solid common sense of its philosophy."</P> (Richard W. Hudgens <i>PsycCRITIQUES</i>)<br /><br /><P>"McHugh writes with a wit and elegance almost extinct in his professional neighborhood."</P> (Kay S. Hymowitz <i>Commentary</i>)
zlib_text: Oxford Medical Publications
  Mind, Meaning, and
  Mental Disorder
  
  International Perspectives in Philosophy
  and Psychiatry
  Series Editors
  Bill (KWM) Fulford, Katherine Morris, John Z Sadler,
  Giovanni Stanghellini
  Volumes in the series:
  Nature and Narrative: An Introduction to the New Philosophy of
  Psychiatry
  Fulford, Morris, Sadler, and Stanghellini (ed.)
  Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder
  Bolton and Hill
  Forthcoming:
  Concise Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
  Fulford, Thornton, and Graham
  Postpsychiatry
  Bracken and Thomas
  The Philosophical Understanding of Schizophrenia
  Chung, Fulford, and Graham (ed.)
  Values and Psychiatric Disorders
  Sadler
  Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
  Radden (ed.)
  The Vulnerable Self: The Clinical Phenomenology of the
  Schizophrenic and Affective Spectrum Disorders
  Parnas, Sass, and Stanghellini
  
  Mind, Meaning, and
  Mental Disorder
  The nature of causal
  explanation in
  psychology and
  psychiatry
  SECOND EDITION
  Derek Bolton
  Jonathan Hill
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