The Collected Writings of Marcia A. Murphy: Christus Magnus Medicus Sanat (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781725261969)

The psychotic break occurred when I was in the vulnerable twenties, for me, a naive time of adventure and risks; and I was devastated. Only later was I to learn that psychotic episodes and hallucinations may have real-world significance. My own experience told me this but the view of scientific psychiatry that was drummed into me by family, counselors, doctors, etc., made me doubt. Yet, I knew something momentous had happened, and I wanted to know what and what it meant for my life. The search took me to the library--the public library, the university library, the health sciences library--and there I found books that, some of them, told a different story. There, I was to learn that the mind is more than the workings of the material brain. I was to find that mental illness, including psychotic episodes, can be a means of personal transformation and may have spiritual significance.

Author: Marcia A. Murphy
ISBN-10: 1725261960
ISBN-13: 9781725261969
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2020
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d