Bøker av Ronald Pies

Ron Pies offers a rare poetic journey through his experience as a psychiatrist and as a man in this collection. Pies teaches at Tufts and Harvard Medical School and has published in medical and other journals. He has written widely on the therapeutic uses of poetry and the nature of poetic language. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife, Nancy Butters.

This 'user's guide' to becoming a better person takes readers through a process of personal growth by means of modern-day vignettes that draw upon the Talmud's ancient wisdom. Readers of any or no faith learn what it takes to become a 'mensch' -- a decent and honorable human being.

In the course of this compact and insightful work, Dr. Ronald Pies, tells us a little about what happiness is, and a lot about how to achieve it.