The usefulness is in what is here.
The meaning is in what is not here.
Lao-c’
Addendum: This book has a lot of meaning, while its usefulness is negligible.
Radkin Honzák
In a way, this book continues Vondráček's memoirs, because where Professor Vondráček ends, Radkin Honzák begins with his introduction to psychiatry. You will not believe it, but electroconvulsive therapy is still the safest and most effective treatment for treatment-resistant depression. From its brutal beginnings to today's elegant application. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was not about electroshock, but about a surgical procedure, lobotomy.
The Owners of the Keys was a theatrical play by Milan Kundera, which premiered in 1962 in Prague, and its plot took place over one and a half hours on a Sunday morning. In contrast, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, publicist and educator Radkin Honzák’s memoirs (born 1939), Sixty Years in Psychiatry as the Keeper of the Keys, completed in 2024, unfold over a long span of six decades in the context of everyday routine in Czech and Czechoslovak medicine, pharmacology, and especially psychiatry.
Binding: hard cover
ISBN: 9788074927164
Year of publication: 2024
Language: Czech
Publisher: Galén
Number of pages: 201