You may have heard of David Hartman: Temple University held a press conference when he entered medical school there, the first blind student accepted into such a program. This biography, however, spends perhaps 20 pages on that...
Psychiatrists
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Author:David Hartman, Bernard AsbellSummary: - Author:Klingberg, HaddonSummary:
Written in response to the horrors he experienced and witnessed during the Holocaust, Viktor Frankl’s landmark book, Man’s Search for Meaning, has sold millions of copies and been translated into twenty-seven languages. But although...
- Author:Blair, MichaelSummary:
Things are slow for Burlington, Vermont, Private Investigator Hack Loomis, so he agrees to look into the disappearance of his assistant’s friend Belle Ryerson. Belle went missing after attending a meeting of a UFO group run by a...
- Author:Fisher, Carl ErikSummary:
Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat it. With uncommon empathy and erudition, Carl Erik Fisher draws on his own experience...
- Author:El-Hai, JackSummary:
In a devastated Europe at the end of World War II, the improbable relationship between fallen tyrant Hermann Göring and rising US Army physician Douglas Kelley becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil.
- Author:Fitzgerald, F. ScottSummary:
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Author:Cade, ScottySummary:Thompson and Caroline Gray were living their dream until Caroline's untimely death just two years after they’d bought the Thundercloud Marina. When Caroline died, she left Thompson alone and emotionally disconnected—until Thompson’s...
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Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best Book. When Grace, a highly competent and...
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Author:Faulks, SebastianSummary:Two teenaged boys from different backgrounds become friends through their study of psychiatry, but their love for the same woman creates an explosive situation at their sanatorium in Austria in the early 20th century.
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Author:Respress-Churchwell, GloriaSummary:Chester Pierce broke racial barriers by joining his college football team during segregation in the United States. Despite breaking the law, his team played on.
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Author:Raimondo, LynneSummary:When attorney Jane Barrett's lover collapses from a fatal dose of an antipsychotic drug, it falls to Barrett's oldest friend, Hallie Sanchez, and psychiatrist Mark Angelotti to defend her on murder charges. The pair succeeds, but at a...
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Author:Raimondo, LynneSummary:Though Rachel Lazarus has confessed to her husband's murder, she's mounting a battered woman's defense. Forced into helping the prosecution, blind psychiatrist Mark Angelotti uncovers uncomfortable parallels between Rachel's history and...
- Author:Stern, AdamSummary:
Grey's Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist's charming and poignant memoir about his residency at Harvard. Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one...
- Author:Pinborough, SarahSummary:
Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar, and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she's thrilled she finally connected with someone. When Louise arrives...
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Author:Yalom, Irvin D.Summary:Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. Not simply a man's life story, this is Yalom's...
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Author:Galchen, RivkaSummary:When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo searches for his real wife.
- Author:Yalom, Marilyn, Yalom, Irvin D.Summary:
Psychiatrist and grief counselor Irvin Yalom and his wife, feminist author Marilyn Yalom, share their experience after her terminal diagnosis as they reflect on how to love and live without regret.
