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The cultural death of God has created a conundrum for intellectuals. How could a life stripped of ultimate meaning be anything but absurd? How was man to live? How could he find direction in a world of no direction? What would be tell his children that could make their lives worthwhile? What is the ground of morality?Existentialism is the literary cri de coeur resulting from the realization that without God, everything good, true and beautiful...

The New England Journal of Medicine is one of the most important general medical journals in the world. Doctors rely on the conclusions it publishes, and most do not have the time to look beyond abstracts to examine methodology or question assumptions. Many of its pronouncements are conveyed by the media to a mass audience, which is likely to take them as authoritative. But is this trust entirely warranted? Theodore Dalrymple, a doctor retired...

In this, Theodore Dalrymple's second collection of short stories, he begins to let his imagination run. The absurdity of modern life is fully laid bare when taken to extremes. You will laugh through your tears. ***Satire is prophecy.- Theodore Dalrymple

The pleasures of car travel around rural Britain are considered by former prison psychiatrist and author of "The Knife Went In" Theodore Dalrymple, with the author embarking on a travelogue that sets to prove the thesis that everywhere is interesting.

First paperback edition of the acclaimed Hardback.

Theodore Dalrymple's work focuses on the moral decay of modern culture and the pernicious effect of political correctness on society. Anything Goes is a collection of some of his finest work written between 2005 and 2009 for New English Review. A note on the cover from New English Review Press: This jazz age photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston reflects the classical conviction that the human form expresses a spiritual level of beauty, the ...

What is written without pain, said Doctor Johnson, is rarely read with pleasure. Rarely perhaps, but not, I hope, never: for the little essays in this book were written, I must confess, without much angst. In part this was because, in writing them, I had no thesis to prove, no axe to grind, except that the world is both infinitely interesting and amusing, and provides us with an inexhaustible source of material for philosophical reflection. ...

Farewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple's finest essays written for New English Review between 2009 and 2012. His first such collection was Anything Goes (2011). Once encountered, Theodore Dalrymple has become for many of us a shared treasure-the cultured, often mordantly funny social commentator who was for many years a psychiatrist at a British prison. This collection of recent essays captures Dalrymple at his best, ruminating...

Theodore Dalrymple, almost singlehandedly, revived the languishing Essay and in so doing became Britain's answer to Montaigne. In this, his first foray into the Short Story form, he proves himself a rival of Anton Chekhov. His many devoted fans will be delighted. -------------------------------- Some truth can be told only in the form of fiction. That is why I chose to write these stories. - Theodore Dalrymple

In dit scherpzinnige boek vol droge humor dringt Theodore Dalrymple diep door in het gedachteleven van moordenaars om te ontdekken waarin ze verschillen van de rest van de mensheid. Als gevangenispsychiater en arts, eerst in Oost-Londen en later in het centrum van Birmingham, heeft hij meer Engelse moordenaars gekend en behandeld dan de meesten van ons ooit zullen zien, zelfs in tv-series. Aan de hand van die fascinerende ontmoetingen toont hi...

Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry, therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only impossible, but entails intellectual, moral and emotional dishonesty. The attempt to eradicate prejudice has several dire consequences for the indi...

An essay on mass health scares in the modern world.

A witty and ironical selection of the best of Dr Dalrymple's 'Spectator' pieces, which he produces regularly for the journal, illustrated with cartoons by Nick Newman.

Former prison doctor and social commentator Theodore Dalrymple, whose books include "Spoilt Rotten!" and "The Pleasure Of Thinking", delves deep into the criminal mind of murderers to discover what sets them apart from the rest of society in this new book.

Shows that doctors, psychologists and social workers, all of them uncritically accepting addicts' descriptions of addiction, have employed literary myths in constructing an equal and opposite myth of quasi-treatment. This work also shows that addiction is not a disease, but a response to personal and existential problems.

A light-hearted memoir from the prison doctor and journalist, describing his lifelong love of reading and thinking. 'Witty, always punchy and sometimes rapier-like' "Scotsman

This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. It suggests comparison with the work of George Orwell. In these twenty-six pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs. Informed by years of medical practice in a wide variety of se...

Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the other hand, there is growing anxiety that Europe is quickly falling behind in an aggressive, globalized world. Europe is at the forefront of no...

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social