Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death
Written by Alexander Batthyány
Narrated by Eric Meyers
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About this audiobook
Terminal lucidity is a relatively common but poorly understood phenomenon. Near the end of life, many people—including those who have suffered brain injuries or strokes, or have been silenced by mental illness or deep dementia—experience what seems a miraculous return. They regain their clarity and energy, are able to talk with families and caregivers, recall their lives and often appear to be aware of their nearing death.
In this remarkable audiobook, cognitive scientist and Director of the Viktor Frankl Institute Dr. Alexander Batthyány offers the first major account of terminal lucidity, utilizing hundreds of case studies and his research in the related field of near-death studies to explore the mind, the body, the nature of consciousness, and what the living can learn from those who are crossing the border from life to death.
Astonishing, authoritative, and deeply moving, Threshold opens a doorway into one of life's—and death's—most provocative mysteries.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press Essentials.
Alexander Batthyány
Professor Alexander Batthyány, PhD, is director of the Research Institute for Theoretical Psychology and Personalist Studies at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, professor for existential psychotherapy at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, and director of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy in Vienna. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books, and his academic work has been translated into ten languages. He has also been invited to give lectures around the world. Batthyány divides his time between Vienna and the Hungarian countryside.
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