Foreward by Colm Toibin
Ivor Browne is Professor Emeritus, University College, Dublin, having retired in 1994. He was formerly Professor of Psychiatry at the University College, Dublin; Chief Psychiatrist of the Eastern Health Board. He is a preceptor of the Sarg Marg system of meditation which he has practiced since 1978. Browne has published many books and articles as An Experiment with a Psychiatric Night Hospital (1960); Psychiatry in Ireland (1963); The Dilemma of the Human Family: a cycle of growth and decline (1966); Thomas Murphy: The Madness of Genius(1987), How does Psychotherapy Work? (1989), Psychological Trauma, or Unexperienced Experience (1990).
Music and Madness, by the eminent psychiatrist Ivor Browne, should hearten anyone who has ever felt gauche, inadequate, unwanted, a failure, a 'mistake', lonely; the honesty of this memoir is remarkable. It's an inspiring book. Tom Murphy, playwrightMusic and Madness is a brilliant book that needed to be written, and deserves to be read by as many people as possible. Important and crucial to our understanding of the 'human condition' as I believe Music and Madness to be, I am sure it will cause controversy, and in all probability will be received by the psychiatric community with some measure of outrage and even rebuke.Garrett O'Connor, M.D. Chief Executive Officer, The Betty Ford Institute for Addiction Research, Prevention and Education, California This is an open, honest and deeply personal account of Ivor Browne's personal and professional journey to discover the sense behind much of what we regard as madness. His central message is that healing and integration are possible, if we are willing to "unfreeze" our inner lives and experience genuine hurt and pain that we have disavowed. This book is written in a style that is accessible and compassionate; it leaves one with renewed hope and with a reverence for the mystery embodied in every human being.Dr Tony Bates, psychologist Music and Madness is the finest example of a certain type of radical Irish life since Noel Browne's Against the Tide. Vivid, strange, moving, brilliant.Sebastian Barry, writer
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