Foundations


Psychiatry is categorised somewhere between the natural sciences and the humanities – presenting this subject with a major challenge as well as a great chance for building bridges between the fields of philosophy, mythology, religious studies and the history of art on the one hand, and medicine, psychology, neurophysiology, genetics and physics on the other hand.
 
I would like to take this opportunity to tell you more about the foundations of my work:
 






Excerpt from a mural of the Buddhist chapel of Lukhang, Lhasa, Tibet. (© photo: Thomas C. Laird)
Excerpt from a mural of the Buddhist chapel of Lukhang, Lhasa, Tibet. (© photo: Thomas C. Laird)