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The Sparks That Endure: Why Our Core Human Drives Survive Mental Illness
by Clovis Raymond, MD
Even in the depths of psychosis, depression, or mania, something human refuses to be extinguished. Psychiatrist Dr. Clovis Raymond calls these inner forces sparks—the enduring drives toward sex, money, food, music, spirituality, creativity, movement, rituals, nature, humor, touch, storytelling, hope, and freedom.
Drawing on decades of clinical experience and personal reflection, The Sparks That Endure explores how these primal motivators—often dismissed as symptoms or distractions—are actually the core energies that sustain identity, meaning, and recovery. Through vivid patient stories, cross-cultural insights, and compassionate analysis, Dr. Raymond reveals what survives when everything else falls apart—and how reconnecting to these sparks transforms care.
This book reframes psychiatry as a human story of desire, dignity, and resilience. It invites clinicians, patients, and families alike to look beyond pathology and see what endures: the deep pulse of life that wants to keep living.
Insightful, poetic, and grounded in science, The Sparks That Endure bridges medicine and humanity—showing that the light within us does not vanish, even in our darkest hours.
The Sparks That Endure: Why Our Core Human Drives Survive Mental Illness
by Clovis Raymond, MD
Even in the depths of psychosis, depression, or mania, something human refuses to be extinguished. Psychiatrist Dr. Clovis Raymond calls these inner forces sparks—the enduring drives toward sex, money, food, music, spirituality, creativity, movement, rituals, nature, humor, touch, storytelling, hope, and freedom.
Drawing on decades of clinical experience and personal reflection, The Sparks That Endure explores how these primal motivators—often dismissed as symptoms or distractions—are actually the core energies that sustain identity, meaning, and recovery. Through vivid patient stories, cross-cultural insights, and compassionate analysis, Dr. Raymond reveals what survives when everything else falls apart—and how reconnecting to these sparks transforms care.
This book reframes psychiatry as a human story of desire, dignity, and resilience. It invites clinicians, patients, and families alike to look beyond pathology and see what endures: the deep pulse of life that wants to keep living.
Insightful, poetic, and grounded in science, The Sparks That Endure bridges medicine and humanity—showing that the light within us does not vanish, even in our darkest hours.