Mind Has Mountains

Paul R. McHugh, M.D., is the Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, the former director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the coauthor of The Perspectives of Psychiatry, also available from Johns Hopkins. He was selected by President George W. Bush to sit on the Presidential Council on Bioethics and by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to be on their National Review Board for the elimination of the sexual abuse of children by clergy.

Wise words from a wise man. -- Naomi Schaefer Riley Wall Street Journal 2006 McHugh writes clearly in a straightforward manner that laymen will find gratifying... thought provoking and entertaining. -- John Lewis Baltimore Magazine 2006 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. -- Mark Welch, Ph.D. Metapsychology 2006 Elegantly clear, concise, jargon-free. Hopkins Medicine 2006 This is a refreshing book... both in its moral stance and in the solid common sense of its philosophy. -- Richard W. Hudgens PsycCRITIQUES 2006 McHugh writes with a wit and elegance almost extinct in his professional neighborhood. -- Kay S. Hymowitz Commentary 2006 It is impossible to read these essays and not feel challenged to position onself on the issue under discussion. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2006 Well-written, sometimes elegant. -- Eric J. Cassell, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine 2006 [McHugh] examines with wit, common sense, and humanity several trends in modern psychiatry. Sunrise: Theosophic Perspectives 2007 A well-written and thought-provoking volume of essays that gives mental health professionals and interested lay readers one view into topics that have been prominent at the interface between psychiatry and society for the past two decades. -- Mary E. Barber Psychiatric Services 2006