Encounters of a Medical Imagination

About the Book

Readers of Encounters of a Medical Imagination accompany the author in his imagined medical consultations with celebrities; heroes and villains of our day-to-day life. The encounters will surprise the reader with the spontaneous and direct styles of John Lennon, Oscar Wilde, Eleanor Roosevelt, Niccolò Machiavelli and Anton Chekhov, among others. Acting more as friends rather than the famous, they considerer questions and offer opinions that speak to both the reader's mind and heart. Consequently, the reader is drawn into the lively camaraderie that so often accompanies the search for a wiser and stronger way of life. These fables should enliven the liveliest of imaginations.

About the Author

Recently retired from an active psychiatric practice, Ralph Crawshaw, M.D. reviewed films for 17 years and was a member of the editorial board of The Pharos of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. A 30-year member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine, Dr. Crawshaw was also a US-USSR visiting scholar and member of the Russian Academy of the Natural Sciences, and founded Lifeworks, an Oregon-based mental health clinic. Dr. Crawshaw has also authored The General Practice of Community Psychiatry and In Compassion's Way. He draws upon a flood of medical experience to portray humanity as a direct personal encounter in Encounters of a Medical Imagination.