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Fitzhugh Mullan (review date 8 May 1988)

SOURCE: Review of Times of Surrender in Washington Post Book World, Vol. XVIII, May 8, 1988, p. 11.

[In the following review, Mullan identifies the central themes and approaches found in the essays collected in Times of Surrender.]

In 1967 a group of medical students at the University of Chicago, hungry for relevance and frustrated with the tidy complacency of their educations, invited Robert Coles to speak to them. The young psychiatrist, already established as a writer, civil rights activist and social critic, told the students he was anxious to visit because only eight years earlier he had done his internship at the University of Chicago. He had left it for psychiatry, a course that led him ever further away from traditional biomedicine. He wanted to have a peek at his old life, he told the students, from his new one. The students, eager for the political and moral message he brought...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Melvin J. Friedman (review date Fall 1982)
   2. Neil Postman (review date 19 January 1986)
   3. Katherine Paterson (review date 2 February 1986)
   4. Jonathan Kellerman (review date 9 February 1986)
   5. New Yorker (review date 10 February 1986)
   6. John Leo (review date 17 March 1986)
   7. Kenneth L. Woodward (review date 6 September 1987)
   8. Jeff Dietrich (review date 13 September 1987)
   9. Fitzhugh Mullan (review date 8 May 1988)
   10. Helen Bevington (review date 26 February 1989)
   11. Francis X. Rocca (review date March 1989)
   12. Iain Bamforth (review date 7-13 July 1989)
   13. Sanford Pinsker (essay date Summer 1989)
   14. Herbert Mitgang (review date 21 November 1990)
   15. Laura Sessions Stepp (review date 23 December 1990)
   16. The New Yorker (review date 7 January 1991)
   17. Virginia C. Hoch (review date 26 August-2 September 1992)
   18. A. J. S. (review date 1993)
   19. Michelle Huneven (essay date 3 October 1993)
   20. Robert A. Sirico (review date 15 November 1993)
   21. Gail Russell Chaddock (review date 9 December 1993)
   22. Ed Walraven (essay date 1994)
   23. Paulina F. Kernberg (review date October 1994)
   24. Richard Bernstein (review date 27 January 1997)
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