Flying Without Wings: Personal Reflections on Loss,

Flying Without Wings: Personal Reflections on Loss, Disability, and Healing

â€œGive yourself a gift and read Flying Without Wings. You will be kinder, wiser, and more compassionate for having read it. I am.â€â€”Abigail (Dear Abby) Van Buren

At twenty-four, Arnold Beisser was a recent medical school graduate and a nationally ranked tennis player. But overnight a devastating bout of polio left him permanently paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on an iron lung to draw his next breath. Polio robbed Arnold Beisser of his strength, his athletic ability, and almost his life. Yet he discovered in this unthinkable trap not only the expected sadness and despair, but wonder, delight, and the pleasure of everyday living.

This is the wise, deeply moving, and warmly humorous account of Arnold Beisserâ€™s search for a new life and meaning as he comes to terms with his disability and then transcends it . . . to practice psychiatry, to fall in love, truly to soar without wings. His spirit and determination to fight for happiness will inspire any reader faced with unbearable loss. Dr. Beisser shows us why the contrast between winner and loser, athlete and cripple, is in our minds much more than in our bodies. And he shares with us the experiences that taught him lifeâ€™s greatest truth: Nothing can keep you from love, laughter, meaningful work, or enlightenmentâ€”except yourself.

â€œA book of blazing honesty and openness. It goes right to the heart of the reader.â€â€”Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of an Illness
Country USA
Brand Bantam
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color White
ReleaseDate 1990-02-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780553348682

Country	USA
Brand	Bantam
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
Color	White
ReleaseDate	1990-02-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780553348682

Flying Without Wings: Personal Reflections on Loss, Disability, and Healing

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