Jan Fawcett

Jan Fawcett has pursued a career as a clinical psychiatrist, researcher, and teacher. He has focused his career on treatment resistant depression and the prevention of suicide. During his career he has had clinical contact with brilliant and creative as well as extremely destructive people.

About 15 years ago, he was found to have a malignant melanoma, then a year later underwent a diagnostic evaluation for the spread of this cancer - a potential death sentence. He had thoughts of heading West, living out what life he had left-but then found that he was clear of metastases. This resulted in an epiphany - Why do you have to be dying to do what you really want to do? This experience inspired him to write his first work of fiction: Living Forever. A student of Buddhism, he wanted to explore "pure consciousness" separate from a material world and the importance of consciousness, in terms of right and left brain functions and their significance for the future of humanity. The result is Living Forever.

In between teaching clinical psychiatry as well as publishing literature regarding suicide prevention and the treatment of refractory mood disorders, he is beginning a sequel to Living Forever.His favorite book is Zen Mind,Begginer's Mind from which he learned to repeatedly become a beginer at some new interest in order to maintain his enthusiasm for life.