Secrets: Stories of Psychiatry from America and Pakistan - Ali Madeeh Hashmi
Secrets: Stories of Psychiatry from America and Pakistan - Ali Madeeh Hashmi
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Dr. Ali Hashmi's latest literary contribution, Secrets: Stories of Psychiatry from America and Pakistan continues his extraordinary personal and family tradition of contributing to our understanding through literature in a wide variety of forms. ‘Secrets’ is relevant on so many different levels! It captures the quest for meaning and the sense of calling of the author who was willing to move thousands of miles from home in order to pursue an education that he hoped to put to use serving the people of his native land. His mixture of the personal and the professional is quite beautiful and his broad interest in classical literature is also reflected in some of the chapters. It was my great privilege to be his Psychiatry Residency Director in the United States and one of the enduring rewards of that job is to now learn from my student serving those in need with distinction and honour.
James W. Lomax, M.D.
Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
Karl Menninger Chair of Psychiatric Education and Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis, Emeritus
Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Title: Secrets: Stories of Psychiatry from America and Pakistan
Author: Ali Madeeh Hashmi
Subject: Memoirs, Psychiatry
ISBN: 9693537645
Language: English
Number of Pages: 160
Year of Publication: 2026
A reflection on the long arduous journey of life, it's emotional twists and violent turns as told from the psychiatrist's chair. You are on the couch with the "patients", sometimes the analyzed and other times the analyzer. Despite being a breezy read, the takeaways are profound.
Fascinating person..fasinating content
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book. Written in a frank, candid and honest manner it captivates the reader right from the beginning. The stories narrated are deeply emotional and realistic. The book implicitly suggests that mental health illnesses are oblivious of geography. People suffer from these everywhere. The writers personal account of dealing with his father’s illness and death is achingly real and painful. The stories revolving around obsessions, abuse, divorce, burnout,delusions, drugs and old age quite realistically portray the dilemma of people living in a technologically advanced world and struggling with mental health issues. The book is a worth read for anyone interested in psychology, psychiatry or simple human behaviour.