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Ivor Browne: Music and Madness

Ivor Browne: Music and Madness


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This book charts the career of a man who has always been respected for his compassion, quirky way of thinking and fearless opposition to orthodox psychiatry. More importantly, he tells of how he came to each one of his conclusions. Ivor Browne has had a positive input into Irish life on both sides of the border. As a young man he was given a fellowship to Harvard University where he studied Public and Community Mental Health. He returned to Ireland determined to put what he had learned into practice and it was his initiative which took the care of mental patients away from large institutions into the community.He conceived and was director of the Irish Foundation for Human Development. This set up the first Community Association in Ireland in Ballyfermot one of the early large housing estates in Dublin. Ballyfermot was merely a housing estate without any facilities, he went in with a professional team and helped the residents to turn it into a thriving working class community. This project was so successful that an off shoot was establish in Derry, called the Inner City Trust which not only rebuilt, but transformed the city of Derry during the years it was being torn down by both sides in the conflict. The work of rebuilding was done by young people of Derry, who were trained by the Trust and inspired away from taking part in the destruction of their home town. Derry was made a model for The Prince of Whales' urban village development project and other urban renewal developments around the world.

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Foreward by Colm Toibin

About the Author :
Ivor Browne is Professor Emeritus, University College, Dublin, having retired in 1994. He was formerly Professor of Psychiatry at the University College, Dublin; Chief Psychiatrist of the Eastern Health Board. He is a preceptor of the Sarg Marg system of meditation which he has practiced since 1978. Browne has published many books and articles as An Experiment with a Psychiatric Night Hospital (1960); Psychiatry in Ireland (1963); The Dilemma of the Human Family: a cycle of growth and decline (1966); Thomas Murphy: The Madness of Genius(1987), How does Psychotherapy Work? (1989), Psychological Trauma, or Unexperienced Experience (1990).

Review :
Music and Madness, by the eminent psychiatrist Ivor Browne, should hearten anyone who has ever felt gauche, inadequate, unwanted, a failure, a 'mistake', lonely; the honesty of this memoir is remarkable. It's an inspiring book. Tom Murphy, playwrightMusic and Madness is a brilliant book that needed to be written, and deserves to be read by as many people as possible. Important and crucial to our understanding of the 'human condition' as I believe Music and Madness to be, I am sure it will cause controversy, and in all probability will be received by the psychiatric community with some measure of outrage and even rebuke.Garrett O'Connor, M.D. Chief Executive Officer, The Betty Ford Institute for Addiction Research, Prevention and Education, California This is an open, honest and deeply personal account of Ivor Browne's personal and professional journey to discover the sense behind much of what we regard as madness. His central message is that healing and integration are possible, if we are willing to "unfreeze" our inner lives and experience genuine hurt and pain that we have disavowed. This book is written in a style that is accessible and compassionate; it leaves one with renewed hope and with a reverence for the mystery embodied in every human being.Dr Tony Bates, psychologist Music and Madness is the finest example of a certain type of radical Irish life since Noel Browne's Against the Tide. Vivid, strange, moving, brilliant.Sebastian Barry, writer


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  • ISBN-13: 9780955226120
  • Publisher: Cork University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Atrium
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 376
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0955226120
  • Publisher Date: 06 May 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Music and Madness


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