The Savage and Beautiful Country

Alan McGlashan presents a sensitive view of the modern world and of time, of our memories and forgetfulness, joys and sorrows. He takes the reader on a safari into regions that are strange and yet familiar - into the savage and beautiful country of the mind. No "cures" are offered, but we are provoked to reflect on our roles and attitudes in the contemporary world jungle."Alan McGlashan conveys a poetic vision which has more to do with life as it can be lived than all the experiments of the laboratory psychologist or the dialectic of the professional philosopher." - The Times Literary Supplement"A highly provocative work, filled with astonishing and exciting insights about the less rational aspects of man, but communicated to the intelligent layman in an engagingly informal manner." - Library Journal

The author has practiced as a psychiatrist in London for more than forty years. In his long, colorful and many-sided life, he has also served as a pilot for the R.A.F. (with MC and Croix de Guerre decorations), been an officer on a tramp steamer and a dramatic critic for the 'Observer', to name just a few of his stations.

CONTENTS: Preface Foreword Part one: - Remembering and Forgetting - Daily Paper Pantheon - The Subtle Body - Fairy-Tale Worlds - Man and His Bomb Part two: - The Drama of Space and Time -- Act I: Fear and Flying -- Act II: Man in Space -- Act III: Man in Time -- Act IV: As yet unwritten -- Epilogue: The Time of our Lives Part three: - Psyche Unbound - The Forest of Interlocking Opposites - World of Shadows - Mood Swing Part four: - Malice in Wonderland