A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
A biography of Harvard psychiatrist John Mack follows his controversial study of people reporting alien encounters and the professional, ethical, and metaphysical questions that followed.
Good starting place if…
You want to understand how a respected clinician crossed from ordinary psychiatry into serious attention to extraordinary testimony.
Know before you begin…
The book centers Mack's life and inquiry rather than proving the cause of encounter reports. Clinical seriousness and personal testimony do not establish an external explanation.