Encounters of a Medical Imagination

Encounters of a Medical Imagination tells of seventeen encounters the author, a psychiatrist, imagines with famous people including John Lennon and Machiavelli. Sense of humanity is examined as it directs our lives.

Recently retired from an active psychiatric practice, Ralph Crawshaw, M.D. reviewed films for 17 years and was a member of the editorial board of The Pharos of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. A 30-year member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine, Dr. Crawshaw was also a US-USSR visiting scholar and member of the Russian Academy of the Natural Sciences, and founded Lifeworks, an Oregon-based mental health clinic. Dr. Crawshaw has also authored The General Practice of Community Psychiatry and In Compassion's Way. He draws upon a flood of medical experience to portray humanity as a direct personal encounter in Encounters of a Medical Imagination.