Love or Perish [Expanded Edition]

by Dr. Smiley Blanton

Overview

The New York Times called this famous guide to a more rewarding life “sound and solid, the product of a richly furnished mind, a book of wisdom.” Written by one of America’s most distinguished psychiatrists, Dr. Smiley Blanton, it has already found its way into some 200,000 American homes. Hundreds of readers have written to the author saying they were helped, inspired—and wanted more.

In response to these letters, Dr. Blanton added an enormously valuable new section showing how men and women of all ages can give themselves as second chance at happiness—this section, titled “On Making a Fresh Start,” is included in this Expanded Edition, which was first published in 1957.

“I believe that it is possible to achieve an emotional change with the insight developed through books. Books can make a change in one’s philosophy and attitude toward life. That is why so many books of the world are so deeply cherished.

“It is in this hope that I write, in an effort to bring to people the hard-won truths of my observation over many years of life and during more than forty years of practice in psychiatry.”—Dr. Smiley Blanton, Introduction

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787207882
Publisher:	Muriwai Books
Publication date:	07/31/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	528 KB

About the Author

Dr. Smiley Blanton (May 7, 1882 - October 30, 1966) was born in Unionville, Tennessee, to Hiram and Sallie (Brunson) Blanton. He was educated at Vanderbilt University and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1904. Graduate work in English at Harvard and acting in stock companies and summer stock led directly into a short teaching career at Cornell, where he organized the Dramatic Club and taught speech and dramatics.

After four years he decided to study medicine. He received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical School in 1914. After serving as a doctor in the U. S. Army during World War I, he earned his diploma in Psychological Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in London, England in 1923. He began his professional career as an Instructor in the Department of Speech at Cornell University (1907-11) and went on to work as a Professor of Speech and Mental Hygiene at the University of Wisconsin (1914-24), as the Director of the Minneapolis Child Guidance Clinic and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (1924-27), as a Professor of Child Study at Vassar College (1927-31).

In 1929, he travelled to Vienna to be psychoanalyzed by Sigmund Freud and, at the age of forty-nine, became a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City. He worked as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Cornell University (1933-38) before he joined forces with the minister Norman Vincent Peale and established the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry in 1951.

Dr. Blanton also published several books, including The Art of Real Happiness (1950), Now or Never (1959), and The Healing Power of Poetry (1960). He also collaborated with his wife, Margaret Leslie Gray Blanton, on several other child speech projects, including Speech Training for Children: The Hygiene of Speech (1919), Child Guidance (1927), and For Stutterers (1936).

He died in New York in 1966 at the age of 84.