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- ISBN 9781908096647
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2025
- Publisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking. In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes us on a witty and erudite voyage along the hidden pathways that bring ideas together. At once light-hearted and enlightening, it is an amusing flight of the imagination in which we discover the happy accidents that befall those who remain endlessly curious.
Theodore Dalrymple spent the first part of his career as doctor in deprived parts of Africa and South America. When he returned to England he joined the Prison Service as a GP and psychiatrist in London's East End and later inner-city Birmingham. He is a regular contributor to, among others, The Times, the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Spectator, British Medical Journal, the Australian and he has a column in The Oldie and City Journal.
