Hidden Medicine is a remarkable and coherent account of a psychiatrist and devout Christian who combines medicine and spirituality. This extraordinary doctor is Thomas McCormack, a faith-driven American who, after graduating in medicine and specializing in psychiatry, decided to treat mental illnesses through a method...

That Will Never Do! by Ralph V. Clayman, MD, is a thoughtful medical memoir that explores the unique career of a surgeon whose ultimate goal was actually to make traditional incisions obsolete. Shaped by a demanding childhood and a constant search for his father’s approval,...

The people you spend the most time with may be influencing you more than you realize. This idea is explored in The Principle of The Five Chairs by Phil Graffoe. Using the concept of individuals sitting in metaphorical chairs, the guide helps readers understand the...

Held in the Vanishing by Ti Mougne is a memoir about a dutiful daughter who becomes her parents' caregiver. In this book, Mougne talks about the wonderful, unpleasant, draining, and heart-wrenching moments she, her husband, and her son experienced while living with her parents. Mougne...

Angus Cunningham's Twice Before Twelve is a memoir in which he describes how he notices swollen lymph nodes in his neck, aged nine, and starts treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma at Sydney Children’s Hospital. Remission lets him return to school, but the cancer comes back two...

Caregiving Is No Joke: A Caregivers' Guide by Gemaine Owen, MD, is both a practical and heartfelt guide. Owen mixes her professional know-how with honest stories from her own life. It’s a tough job. Caring for someone takes a lot out of you, but there’s...

The human brain is truly a wondrous creation. According to Wahid Antoine Baserini, the universe repeated the pattern of its origins when it developed life, and subsequently, our brains, here on Earth. In The Human Brain Has Eclipsed Its Creator, Baserini emphasizes that a failure...

Dale Zurawski’s The Travel Bitch: Bouncing Across the Globe on a Bipolar High really begins after an Amazon trip sends her back to childhood, in a home changed by her father’s death. Later, a bipolar diagnosis gives a name to the behavior that had already...

Naturalized US Citizen by B. K. Kishore traces the author’s journey from his childhood in post-independence India to his naturalization as a US citizen. Drawing on personal experiences, historical events, scientific achievements, and cultural reflection, the book presents a detailed account of a life shaped...

In Migraine NOW, Tae Ho Guak takes migraine out of the narrow frame of “bad headache” and shows why that mistake can cost patients years. A woman with spinning vertigo is sent for ear treatment. A man with tooth pain ends up in dental care....