Prisons of Our Mind and the Road to Freedom
Thirty years of consulting-room notes on the patterns that hold people — addiction, shame, fear, the injuries that hardened into habits — and the road out of each.
Consultant psychiatrist · Retired
Dr John Mathai, ThD
Forty years in psychiatry. One million souls to go.
I spent four decades treating the human mind in four countries. I know exactly what holds people. I also know what lets them go — and it is not a technique. Everything I have worked out is on this site. Most of it is free.
40+
Years in consultant psychiatry
4
Countries practised in
2
Books, both in print
1M
Souls, the whole point of the work
Start here. Most of it costs nothing.
I am eighty. I am not building a business. I am trying to get the work into as many hands as possible before I am done.
FreeThe WritingShort essays where clinical psychiatry meets the interior life. New pieces as I work them out.Read the essays →FreeThe VlogRecorded teaching, plainly delivered. Needs, soul, faith — one idea at a time, no production gloss.Watch a video →$5–$25The BooksThirty years of case notes, indexed and worked through. Both titles in eBook, paperback and hardcover.Get the books →By letterWrite To MeI answer letters. Speaking, interviews and reader questions come to the same inbox.Send a letter →
The books
My Adventures With The Holy Spirit
A shorter, warmer book: accounts from a life of being led — through danger, failure and seasons that made no sense at the time.
“I am a disciple of Jesus. My vision is to take a million souls to Heaven.” What is impossible is, with Jesus, possible — and forty years of case notes gave me the evidence for how badly the mind needs it.
What readers say
Greatly encouraging
The overriding theme is the unseen hand of God in the journey of our lives — bringing us out of danger, failing and seasons of trial we do not understand at the time.
Interesting view of live events
Each account is concise and descriptive, and will likely invoke emotion and personal reflection. A simple book with a powerful message.
Insightful
Not a book for my bookshelf — a timeless reference for daily life. His understanding of scripture and his experience as a psychiatrist are both quite evident.
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