Attic Press
Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — December 2008
Music and madness.
Browne, Ivor.
Attic Press, ©2008 364 p. $42.95 RC339
978-0-9552261-2-0
Irish psychiatrist Ivor Browne presents a memoir of his career in which he incorporates a critique of traditional psychiatry's move towards drug therapies. He describes his childhood and family, his early forays as a jazz trumpeter, and his switch to psychiatry when he could no longer play because of tuberculosis. He traces his training and employment, his founding and directing of the Irish Foundation for Human Development (which set up the Community Association in Ballyfermot, Ireland), and his theories and their basis. Distributed in the US by ISBS. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
