St Michael's Uniting Church in Australia - Dr Macnab - Books by Dr Macnab

Don't Call Me Grumpy _{What Older Men Really Want}

This book is about older men. It's about our culture and our lack of an adequate psychology. It is about women and how they see their men.

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The Doctor's Casebook _{Discovering Wisdom and Contentment}

• Reaching Contentment
• Finding Wisdom
• Enjoying Life
• Managing Anxiety
• Accepting Change
• Overcoming Grief
• Functioning More Efficiently
• Identifying Sources of Energy

Dr Macnab writes from a long first-hand experience in clinical psychotherapy and community education. He is Executive Director of The Cairnmillar Institute, Melbourne. Over forty years he has treated many thousands of people; he has trained psychotherapists in several communities and has been a persistent leader in community education and the promotion of health, happiness and well-being.

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The 30 Vital Years _{What every person over 50 wants to know What every person under 50 needs to know}

Most people want to enjoy life until the day they die. They need to begin early to do everything possible to reach this goal. That will mean embracing the prospect of growing older, and bursting the stereotypes that begin to gather around people as soon as they reach middle age.

The 30 Vital Years is an optimistic forward-looking book with a most important and impressive theme - that wherever you are on the life-span, the next 30 years will be the vital years. This book informs, encourages, provokes and astonishes. Above all, it is helpful and life-enhancing. It contains stories that will summon every reader to write their story; and so add to the gathering volumes that inspire people to live fully, intelligently and colourfully.

Hope _{The deeper longings of the mind and heart}

Hope is one of the greatest qualities of the human spirit. We are what hope we have. We are what hope we give. We are expanded and enriched by hope. It is one of the primary resources of humankind, the basic ingredient of human survival.

Footprints _{Psychological and Psychoanalytic Explorations. Edvard Munch, Gustav Mahler, John Flynn and other essays.}

Mahler suffered many griefs, yet wrote great music. Munch lost his mother when he was a child. So did John Flynn. In this exciting and compelling book, Francis Macnab explores how these people took hold of the pain of life imposed on them, and made an extraordinary difference to life for millions of people.

Investigative and self-revealing, Macnab brings psychology and psychoanalysis alive as he focuses also on contemporary violent behaviour, human suffering and the search for human happiness.

Bliss _{What we all need but often miss}

Discover your personal bliss through others' experiences and reflections.

If bliss is the high point of being alive, how can we find it, create it, sustain it and extend it into different areas of our lives?

There is a common belief that if bliss is going to occur at all, it will be in our best moments - our quiet times, our times of greatest joy. But many people have a different story to tell. They have discovered a different bliss in their pain, grief and sorrow. For others, bliss has been experienced at a time of high stress or competitive achievement.

In this book, we visit bliss in its many appearances. In turning these pages, be open to the possibility of recognising your own bliss, and when you see it - follow it!

A Fine Wind is Blowing _{Psalms of the bible in words that will blow you away}

If you want to be successful in this world - you must get rid of your enemies. Leave their children orphans. Make sure the god of the heavens is on the side of the strong. Keep saying - God bless us! May the losers be forgotten forever! These sentiments come from the Bible.

True today as it was in ancient - less ‘enlightened' - times. In some ways we are different. Today not many people really believe in a god ‘up there'. Fewer still read the bible, and those who do, know it can mean what anyone wants it to mean. But everybody knows the power of violence and the finality of death. Everybody can see the harvests of hate.

We can do with a breath of fresh air. This book searches for the best in the human being. It finds words to tell of the exquisite exuberance of life that is ours for such a short time. God is not ‘up there' but we get glimpses of God in Life and Hope. Hope and Life.

And we become more alive to the exuberance of Life and Hope and what God means as we realise - yes - ‘a fine wind is blowing the new direction of time'.

Hungry for Love

Turn these pages and you will be astonished at how love in its many forms affects you. It can be obvious and flamboyant, concealed and clumsy. From your days in infancy through to your adult years, you will recognise how love got into you and affected the rest of your life.

We hunger for life's most precious gift: for authentic, life-transforming, dizzy experiences of love.

This book is about this human hunger that is restless in us all. Read it, and then write your own few lines about how you had it, hungered for it, and at last have been satisfied.