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Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality by Theodore Dalrymple
Category: Non-Fiction
In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they ...Show more
In Praise of Folly : The Blind-spots of Our Mind by Theodore Dalrymple
Category: Philosophy
Life at the Bottom - The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
Category: Non-Fiction
This is a searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England. Dr. Dalrymple's key insight is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values,one ...Show more
The Best Medicine - Stories of Healing by Theodore Dalrymple
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
An inspired anthology about physical and psychological illness, healing, and healers--featuring a brilliant array of classic and contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore.This unique anthology gathers fictional tales of sickness and of healing, both physical and psychological, from a wide ...Show more
The Wheelchair and Other Stories by Theodore Dalrymple
Category: Fiction
"Mr Rose was not the kind of man to accept defeat without retaliation. Rancour with him was no passing mood but a permanent state, to be nursed by memory and increased by reflection." The protagonists of Theodore Dalrymple's new collection of stories are driven to self-destruction or the destruction of ...Show more
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