Time for Eternity
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Suicidal? Of course I’m suicidal! What intelligent person isn’t? I know I’m intelligent. I have an IQ of 145 and I’m an advanced graduate student at a major university, even though I’m only 19. Nevertheless, intelligent people can make mistakes, and I made a big one. I was honest with a therapist. I admitted that I thought life was a tragic mistake. That’s why I am now on this psychiatric ward suffering the condescending platitudes of those morons who contend that they care about me.
Sure, I know it’s what they get paid for. They’re professional care givers, or here to learn that let’s-pretend game. Can you imagine getting paid to pretend you care? Sickening, don’t you think?
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Joe Pitts, a brilliant if somewhat obsessive and cynical graduate student from a wealthy dysfunctional family lashes out under pressure against what he sees as the hypocrisy of society and the futility of his life in it. Briefly committed to a psychiatric ward in the aftermath of an altercation with one of his professors, he meets Dr. Margaret Wright, a resident and Susan Holland, a somewhat mystical nursing student. Just as Joe begins to believe that his intellect and his Ego can overcome what he sees as a minor troubling interlude in his life, he receives a shock. It is a diagnosis of terminal testicular cancer.
With the aid of Dr. Wright, Susan, Roberta Turner, a philosophical fellow student and Dr. Shultz, the very professor with whom his altercation began this odyssey, and a man whose wife has just made the final passage, Joe learns in the hospice to revere his own, now fleeting existence and gains the humility necessary to face the next and final stage of his life.
About the Author
Dr Wilford W. Spradlin received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Virginia, interned at the Royal Victoria Hospital of McGill University and completed his residency training at Duke University where he later became a member of the faculty. In 1978, Dr. Spradlin accepted the position of Chairman at the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatry. At his retirement in 1977, Dr. Spradlin was awarded the W. W. Spradlin Chair of Psychiatric Medicine and the title of Professor Emeritus. Presently Dr. Spradlin continues to teach and supervise residents. He and his co-author, Susan Renee, pursue their shared interest in the bio-psycho-social foundations of human behavior with emphasis on the psychological, philosophical and religious aspects of reverential phenomena through works of fiction that explore human behavior in crisis situations.
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