Over the course of a 50-year career, James T. McLaughlin has sought to open the playing field of psychoanalytic exploration by treating unconscious processes as the very material from which we fashion meaningful lives. His unique, iconoclastic perspective, which challenged the conventions of his time and professional milieu, not only engages the creative tension between the stance of the analyst and the stance of the healer, but also contains striking intimations of contemporary relational and interpersonal models of psychoanalytic treatment. The Healer's Bent, which thematically...

A Rip Roaring Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy About Drunken Debauchery and Vagrancy with A Dash of Mental Illness.

Memoirs of Drunken Dementia is a journey of one mans drunken memories over the years that he has suffered with his mental illness whilst attempting to survive in a society that does not recognise mental health issues.

There are a number of tales and recounts some clearly fabricated to the extreme in order to extract as much humour from this otherwise marginalised individuals situation.