Signs of Mental Illness: An Astrological and Psychiatric Breakthrough

By Mitchell Earl Gibson

Book Overview

Designed for psychologists, psychiatrists, astrologers, and lay people alike, "Signs of Mental Illness" by Dr. Mitchell E. Gibson, M.D., is a breakthrough in the sciences of psychiatry and astrology... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567183026
• ISBN13: 9781567183023
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding!

I am a scientist. I loved the scientific approach this doctor used to study astrology. He may be onto something but traditional astrologers will have a hard time with this because it is so new and different from their conservative mindset. Imagine that! I highly recommend this book.

Brilliant!! I loved this book!

An astrologer friend of mine recommended this book to me. I have suffered from depression for years and I was glad to see a psychiatrist who has the guts to write about astrology and mental illness for the general public. I have read some of these reviews before I bought the book and they only made me want to read it for myself. This book is a brilliant new approach to mental health and astrology. It is different in that he doesn't use the traditional astrology stuff we all know and love, but aren't we allowed to grow and learn! I called Dr. Gibson and talked to him on the phone. He is approachable, friendly, and smart, real smart. He made me feel better about my illness and he gave me some real insight on depression from a spiritual point of view. You really got to read this book with an open mind, and if you do you will grow a lot in your understanding of how the planets affect our brains...Thanks Dr. Gibson!!

Unbelievable and brilliant

This is a wonderful book, based on the principles of the Magi Society (look for their books !). This sounds like (near-)scientific astrology. Far more medical doctors should learn astrology and write their findings down. If they would bring all this knowledge together, well it would be astonishing to see astrology grow in a scientific way. Mitchell Gibson has studied more than 400 charts and has found statistic significant signatures for some sorts of mental illnesses. This is a brilliant work that any serious astrologer should read. I hope that some computerprograms will incorporate his findings in their astrological software to make this knowledge available so that one can do the tedious calculations in a minute.

Excellent book ,

This is refreshing to see someone from the medical profession to reawakening some astonishing fact about astrology.Not enough detail. The technique used on the declinations is to much to be desired.

BRILLIANT, THOUGHT PROVOKING, INSIGHTFUL,, VISIONARY

After reading Dr. Gibson's book, I began to realize that something new and wonderful had been added to the lexicon of astrology and medicine. Seeing that these two sciences are over 2000 years old individually, I was impressed that Gibson was able to accomplish this feat within a short space of just over 200 pages. The basic premise that mankind and indeed all of reality is affected by a hidden order of forces which is only reflected in the movement of the stars and planets is groundbreaking. In testing this theory, Gibson applies a synthesis of astrology and behavioral science into an astonishly clear and eye-opening new technique which utilizes declinations and longitudinal aspects. He calls this technique "Modern Astrology". This work is sure to create quite a stir within both the astrological and medical fields and quite possibly, terms such grand elevation, binary eclipse, Hidek, and planetary index are likely to become very familiar phrases. The book was informative and very thought provoking. The fact that a psychiatrist came up with a way to plumb the depths of a portion of the birth chart which most astrologers eagerly avoid is a little surprising and perhaps somewhat disconcerting. In a word, the book is brilliant. We may never look at major depression, schizophrenia, addictions, anxiety disorders, or attention deficit disorders in the same way again.