This book is a bold compendium which seeks to breach the silence and unfamiliarity surrounding a vast range of topics. The writings brought forth by Dr. P.R. Trivedi should assist in opening or reinvigorating our conversations about madness, psychosis, psychiatric treatment, psychospiritual crises, and, why not, terrorism, organized violence, malevolent authority, the willingness to kill, nuclear weapons and climate change, but for that, we might need to experience an overwhelming spiritual emergency. In that case, who would we turn to as a guide to light the way out of the dark night of our soul ? Our individual and perhaps collective soul, if you will, challenged by extreme circumstances, which is implied in the concept,This book could become indispensable reading in the psychology departments of Indian universities, and in medical schools where psychiatrists are formed.

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