Overview

What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking. In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes us on a witty and erudite voyage along the hidden pathways that bring ideas together. At once light-hearted and enlightening, it is an amusing flight of the imagination in which we discover the happy accidents that befall those who remain endlessly curious.

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Author:   Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher:   Gibson Square Books Ltd
Imprint:   Gibson Square Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9781908096647

ISBN 10:   1908096640
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   22 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Small Beginnings   1             Suburban Son 2             Artful Sincerity 3             Enemy of the People 4             The Glow of Angels 5             Mrs Buggins 6             How to Be Colour Blind 7             But Is It Safe? 8             Good People and Stuff 9             Free Hands 10          Pools Full of Water 11          Glaring Light 12          A White Van 13          The Present State 14          Scaling the Revolution 15          Discounted Souls 16          Carting Harlots 17          The Fight Against Absurdity 18          Darling Passions 19          Comic Dictators 20          Positive Thinking 21          Bohemians & Foreigners 22          Dirty Words 23          Stealing Time 24          An Overdose of Growing Up 25          Arsenic and Raspberries 26          Heaven and Hell 27          Scalp Hunting 28          False Economies 29          Hair-Combing Pedants 30          Magical Thinking 31          Self-Satisfaction 32          Self-Improvement 33          Room Furnishing

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Theodore Dalrymple spent the first part of his career as doctor in deprived parts of Africa and South America. When he returned to England he joined the Prison Service as a GP and psychiatrist in London's East End and later inner-city Birmingham. He is a regular contributor to, among others, The Times, the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Spectator, British Medical Journal, the Australian and he has a column in The Oldie and City Journal.

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