A PSYCHIATRIST'S NOTEBOOK

This book, “A PSYCHIATRIST’S NOTEBOOK," written parallel to my 30 years of practice in psychiatry, is a diverse collection of works ranging from serious poetry, light verse and doggerel, to epigrams, cartoons, graphics, drawings, and paintings. One sketches for many reasons. Some sketches are done as ends in themselves for pure delight. Some are drawn to work out some problem such as a study for a larger work. Others are drawn to share some concept or idea. These poetic sketches have served all these purposes. They are presented here to convey different dimensions of the usage of poetry in psychiatry.