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A. J. Lees relates how William S. Burroughs, the author of Naked Lunch and a troubled drug addict, inspired him to discover a groundbreaking treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Lees journeys to the Amazon rain forest in search of cures, and through self-experimentation he seeks to find the answers his patients crave. Burroughs is a ghostly mentor to Lees, influencing his methods of inquiry and encouraging him to be open-minded—a rarity in modern clinical practice. This is the story that Lees delayed writing for fear of professional ostracism, but here at last he “lets the cat out of the bag.” Mentored by a Madman is a powerful protest against bureaucracy, and a call for imagination in medical research.
- Sales Rank: #585470 in Books
- Published on: 2017-09-12
- Released on: 2017-09-12
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 7.50" h x .70" w x 4.70" l, .84 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 236 pages
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“Lees takes the reader on an extraordinary journey inside and outside the brain. His deep humanity and honesty shines throughout. The inevitable comparison with the late, great Oliver Sacks is entirely just.” —Raymond Tallis
“[Lees’s] book is not just a wonderfully unexpected addition to the Burroughs literature, but an important polemic for more humane and imaginative medical research.” —Phil Baker, The Times Literary Supplement
"A.J. Lees' Mentored by a Madman is a kaleidoscopic mix of his experiences as a neurologist, his private passions and how they have informed his career, as well as his thoughts regarding some of the bureaucracy that limits research and medical practice today. What gives this book such a unique perspective is the part played by the titular 'madman'...It is a rare thing to find a book with such a unique perspective and accompanying content; however, this is exactly what Mentored by a Madman provides...The book is also reminiscent in some ways of the literary work of Oliver Sacks...As well as a personal account of Lees' experiences, this book also serves as a call for more open-mindedness and freedom in our exploration of medical science." —The Lancet
About the Author
A. J. Lees is a professor of neurology at the National Hospital, London. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Academy of Neurology Lifetime Achievement Award, the Association of British Neurologists’ Medal, the Dingebauer Prize for Outstanding Research, and the Gowers Medal. He is one of the most highly cited Parkinson’s disease researchers in the world and is the author of several books, including Ray of Hope, which was short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and The Silent Plague.
James Grauerholz is a writer, editor, and the biographer and literary executor of the estate of William S. Burroughs.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Doc Trip Shock
By Lucy Bradshinkel
A delightful new angle on the influencer extraordinaire William Burroughs, this time by a young doctor compelled by seveal readings of Naked Lunch to go as WSB had before him , in search of Yage (bannisteria caapi), and attempt to unlock its healing powers for the greater good, not just to do 'is 'ead in, like Bill was trying to do. Very timely tome in view of a new generation of seekers currently gobbling down ( and throwing up) ayahuasca...
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Well worth reading!
By Peter King
As anyone reading this probably already knows, A.J. Lees is an eminent respected London consultant in neurology who has finally decided to risk the ridicule of his peers by revealing that not only has he had a lifelong obsession with William Burroughs that has enabled him to maintain some sort of even keel through the prejudiced seas of the medical profession, but that this very obsession has been a source of inspiration and guidance for him in his search for a more effective treatment for Parkinson’s Disease. I know little about neurology or Parkinson’s, perhaps fortunately, but it seems likely that this book is essential reading for anyone affected by, or with an interest in, this condition. My own reason for reading the book was the link to William Burroughs.
As a Burroughs nerd I was surprised and impressed by this book. I also note that it has the approval of the William S. Burroughs Trust and an introduction by James Grauerholz. To my mind, Burroughs is more elusive, more difficult to get a sense of where he is coming from, than the other “Beats”. Much of the writing on the Beats has tended to focus on his relationship with them in the 1940s/1950s and chooses to gloss over or ignore the continued creativity of the next thirty years of his remarkable life. Lees was first subverted by the Burroughs mindworm as a medical student in the late 1960s, and this has clearly continued to eat away at his reality-perspective ever since, and I think that this enables him in this book to make a very real contribution to the better understanding of this unusual individual. I feel that I understand Burroughs a little better having read this. For example, I appreciated Lees account of the common ground that he sensed, as a medical student, in Burroughs’ writing of the distancing effect on the human psyche of extensive corpse dissection, something that Burroughs would have experienced as a medical student himself in pre-war Vienna. In addition, Lees brings some sort of completion to Burroughs’ championing of Dr Dent and the apomorphine treatment, which as anyone familiar with the Burroughs saga knows, was, for him, the only significantly effective treatment for opiate addiction in his long life. It had always mystified me why the medical profession seemed to have ignored this intervention, and it is most interesting to read Lees’ discussion of this and how he realises that this drug was clinically relevant to his own work. I also enjoyed the details he gives of Burroughs’ own apomorphine cure. By the end of the book Lees has made it to Columbia, following the trail blazed by Burroughs back in 1953, to experience ayahuasca/yage for himself. This last adventure is not that surprising as nowadays such experiences are well-established on the backpacker trail in South America, but what is truly exciting is Lees’ account of how he realised that this drug also has great potential in the treatment of Parkinsons.
Lees also writes at some length, and with great frustration, at the hold that the drug companies have in the UK on research, the universities and the medical profession, and the difficulty in today’s ultra-cautious ethics-dominated world of getting any original research off the ground that does not fit the preconceived opinions of the powers that be. Having worked for many years in the UK in the parallel NHS profession of psychiatry (retired psychotherapist), sadly I can confirm this seemingly mindless inertia. While it has been essential to protect the vulnerable from the misguided and the exploitative, at the same time it seems that the attempt to control and homogenise all therapeutic intervention has also had the subtext of attempting to suppress any spark of originality. For me, this book is a classic illustration of how the truly creative process works through channels of inspiration that are as yet uncharted, and any organisation or society that seeks to develop and blossom must allow room for these pathways that exist out of time and space.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully written insight into an earlier era of clinical experimentation.
By R. J. Adam
A beautifully presented little monograph in which Andrew Lees gives us insight into an earlier generation where self-experimentation and novel ideas could be trialled without fear of retribution or the dreaded ethics committee. A pleasure to read, albeit a sad indictment of our current Big Pharma led world of clinical research, where patients are obligate consumers of ever more expensive medicines. Highly recommended!
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