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Psychiatrist and prison doctor Dalrymple writes on the subject of cultural decline, touching on the benefits of idleness, how to understand Hitler, the meaning of mental illness and the extent to which war advances medicine.

A book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. In the twenty six pieces Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx.

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When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much time on the imponderable questions of metaphysics but had used it to more worthwhile effect. Rather than study philosophy, I should have studied insects. In the little essays that follow, I have no grand theory to prove, no single message to convey. Small things and slight occurrences have cau...

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In this detailed examination of drug addiction treatment, Dalrymple shows that doctors, psychologists, and social workers have created myths about addiction to build lucrative method of expensive quasi-treatment.

In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, Dalrymple takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless young-all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom. He shows how terrorism and the growing numbers of Muslim minorities have changed our public life. Also here are Mr. Dalrymple's trenchant observations on artists and ideologues, and on the treatment of c...

The bestselling author of "Our Culture, What's Left of It" takes the measure of cultural decline, with special attention to Britain--its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless youth--all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom.

This is a searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England. Dr. Dalrymple's key insight is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values.