Paul R. Fleischman, MD, is the author of "Cultivating Inner Peace," "The Healing Spirit," and" Spiritual Aspects of Psychiatric Practice," He has contributed to the "American Journal of Psychiatry," "Landscape," "Nature," "The Yale Review," and "The University of Chicago Review," In 1993 he was awarded the Oskar Pfister award by the American Psychiatric Association. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.