Brief Authority gives an insider's perspective of one of the great issues of our time: the conflict between established materialism embraced by standard science, 'Dress'd in a little brief authority,' and the growing holistic, spiritual view. The novel follows the struggles of a retired medically-trained psychiatrist as he becomes caught in this conflict through encounters with a cluster of gifted young people. How may a conventionally trained psychiatrist react when his fixed materialism is challenged? Could he even begin to think the unthinkable, that his entrenched world-view is unsustainable? It is a world-view that proves to be powerful; he finds himself placed on a knife-edge of deadening theory versus living experience.
- ISBN10 192053525X
- ISBN13 9781920535254
- Publish Date 20 August 2012
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country ZA
- Imprint Kima Global Publishers,South Africa
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 296
- Language English