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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.
Written after four decades in psychiatry across India, Scotland, England and Australia. Each chapter takes one prison of the mind, names its mechanism in plain clinical terms, then asks the question psychiatry cannot answer on its own: what actually opens the door. Readers use it less as a self-help book than as a reference — short entries, indexed, returned to when a particular season demands it.
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Contents
- 01The prison of shame
- 02The prison of fear
- 03The prison of appetite
- 04The prison of resentment
- 05The prison of performance
- 06The road out
From the book
A pattern that once kept someone safe will keep them captive long after the danger has gone. That is not stupidity. It is loyalty to an old rescue.
Naming the mechanism is the easy half. Every patient I met could describe their prison accurately. Almost none could open it from the inside.
Readers
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.