Susan Renee

Wilford W. Spradlin

A young medical student becomes enthralled with a seemingly brilliant neurosurgery professor. He and his wife are thrilled when invited to visit the professor and his wife at their beautiful home on a large horse farm. John’s naïve admiration for his professor blinds him to the fact that his mentor has interests other than neurosurgical research. As these interests become more manifest, John is thrown into a state of depression and despair. Over time, John is able to reorient himself after what he had considered the ultimate loss. After coming to terms with his inner self, John is rewarded by Grace. www.grace-novel.com

Grace

Dr. Eid addresses in this fourth book of his series, Pathways to Happiness, some of the thousands of similarities between the Quran, Torah, and Holy Books of the Hindus, Buddhists, and Shinto. Dr. Eid came to America to establish his organization, the International Movement for World Peace (IMWP), because the leaders of many countries overseas would not give him a license or approval to establish his organization. In this organization, Dr. Eid calls for the people of this burning world to live in a peaceful way, as one family, regardless of race, color, origin, doctrine, belief, or faith. The doctor often says, "Without the west and the countries of freedom, this life is a hell."

Cross to Bear

Renee Susan Renee

"Where do I start?" is a question many lay leaders and counselors ask themselves when working with the multple-issue client. The STARS Leader's Guide is all you need to reach women dealing with the trauma of abortion and/or abuse. This is a 16-week individual or group study that addresses the common, multiple isses that cause women to become paralyzed and unable to change. STARS provides you an organized format and the tools to bring hope to those hurting from their past.

A Prayer for Rose

Several University graduate students, from very different fields of study, find themselves fortuitously enmeshed in life changing interactions. Their growth is largely catalyzed by the life and death of an elderly, retired physics professor, who also serves as a substitute minister at a Unitarian Church. Egotism and emotions overrule scholarly logic as their chaotic interactions evolve. Their lives are altered by their participation in a veiled reverential format, in which they grow to appreciate the transcendental unity of religious expression of reverence. The emotional expression of Pentecostal ecstasy and quiet mystical contemplation are finally appreciated as different expressions of the same sense of unity with the Spirit. www.in-the-spirit-novel.com

In the Spirit

In this allegorical novel, two people, from entirely different backgrounds and lifestyles, become so frustrated with the severity of the acute circumstances of their lives that they attempt to terminate their existence through suicide. Their failed efforts result in their being detoxified in the same E.R. and evaluated on the same psychiatry ward. Vera and Bryan explore the circumstances that led to their actions with two psychiatry residents and the attending physician,Dr. Saunders. The normally adroit and firm attending physician unexpectedly reveals the depth of his personality. By doing so, he leads not only the patients but also his residents on a journey of personal transformation from states of dysfunction to states of reverence and serenity. www.rage-to-reverence.com

Rage to Reverence

Strange Attraction

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 Chair at the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatry. At his retirement in 1997, Dr. Spradlin was awarded the W. W. Spradlin Chair of Psychiatric Medicine and the title of Professor Emeritus. His scientific publications include Human Biosociology and The Search for Certainty, by Springer-Verlag. 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. www.wilford-spradlin-writings.com and www.susan-renee-novels.com

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.

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