{"product_id":"of-heart-and-mind-9781682356074","title":"Of Heart and Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his new book, \u003cem\u003e Of Heart and Mind: A Psychiatrist's Poems, \u003c\/em\u003eretired physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Dr. Peter Alan Olsson shares the poetry that made his difficult career meaningful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe notes, \"My personal use of poetry, or prose writing, helped me manage soul-sadness by discharging, soothing, containing or sublimating the realities of my work life in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. At a personal level, I often feel that my poems write me in an almost mystical sense. They help me heal my pain, celebrate my artistic gift and express my feelings.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he writes in his poem \"My Lovely Dream Dancer\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the delicious, relaxed, loving domain before dawn, we touch like two dream dancers reluctant to awaken ... and the music of our love is too sweet to interrupt. The grasping demands of the day loom like mine fields, but become bearable because we will dance again tonight.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Bio: Peter Alan Olsson, M.D., trained at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. After an internship in mixed medicine at the University of Vermont, he took a psychiatry residency at Baylor (1968-1971). He served as a psychiatrist at Oakland Naval Hospital from 1971-73 running the substance abuse unit, working with the POWs returning from Vietnam prisons. He later graduated from the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute in Houston and practiced psychiatry and psychotherapy while teaching psychotherapy in Houston for 25 years, and later in New Hampshire (1995-2011). Retiring from clinical work in 2011, the author was formerly an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and an adjunct professor of clinical psychiatry at Baylor. Dr. Olsson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Strategic Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682356074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Peter Alan Olsson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580967944373,"sku":"9781682356074","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d1f67340-f910-477e-a74f-201804c8f95d.jpg?v=1755618945","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/of-heart-and-mind-9781682356074","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}