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Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
As he recounts the different ways of dying he has witnessed as a hospice doctor, Michael Kearney demonstrates the importance of restoring--or finding--a psychological wholeness within. Quotations from the writings of thinkers from Francis Bacon to Teilhard de Chardin, and wisdom gleaned from a variety of cultures and religions, deepen the power of Dr. Kearney's message. Ph...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
December 15th 1997
by Scribner Book Company
(first published 1996)
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As you can see from my original review below, I read excerpts of this text a couple years ago... but yesterday I read the book in its entirety. It was excellent. First of all, I feel I have a better understanding of depth psychology than anything I gleaned from the other texts I read in my first two semesters in Mythological Studies. What I feel Kearney ultimately argues through this text is that there is a strong, healing power in our own inner depths. While he relates this specifically to the ...more
Deeply moving and useful to me at this current stage of life, back with my aging parents.
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