Groundbreaking Book Now on Shelves…

The life of Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan, a scientist whose groundbreaking work is admired and followed by our country and the world, has been chronicled in every detail. Beyond being a biographical work, the book also offers life prescriptions for a successful and happy life, describing Prof. Dr. Tarhan's vast experience spanning 70 years, his family, education, university and military years, and his journey to establish the country's first private psychiatric hospital and first thematic university, all told with sincere language and photographs. The book, consisting of extensive interviews conducted by Dr. Tuğba Şimşek and Emre Şimşek, is now on shelves under the name ‘Ezber Bozan Hayat’ (Life That Breaks the Mold).

Many of Tarhan's books have reached readers on different continents, translated into dozens of languages from Indonesian to Persian, Bulgarian to Albanian, and now his ‘Ezber Bozan Hayat’ (Life That Breaks the Mold) has been put into words. The interview book, conducted by Dr. Tuğba Şimşek and Emre Şimşek, was published by Timaş Yayınları.

Beyond being a biography, ‘Ezber Bozan Hayat’ also offers individuals and society a prescription for leading a successful and happy life.

Every detail of the life of Nevzat Tarhan, a professor of psychiatry, retired colonel, author, activist, founding rector of Üsküdar Üniversitesi, an innovative academician, and an entrepreneurial physician, is told transparently and sincerely in his own words.

He conveys to his admirers every unknown aspect of his military and medical years, starting from Merzifon, extending to Kuleli Military High School, then Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, GATA, and many different parts of the country; his fervent work in academia; over thirty books; thousands of citations; tens of thousands of patients whose healing he facilitated; and countless students he supported in starting their lives.

In his life spanning 70 years, he shares with his readers, with a groundbreaking perspective and sincere language, his family, social environment and educational life, his search for meaning, the importance he places on being a family, his resilient stance and success story, Turkey's challenging periods and struggle for democracy, the faith-science relationship, his effort to capture the spirit of the times, his view on the digital world, social media, and Generation Z.

Having spent approximately 40 years in the psychiatry profession, Psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan has always emphasized the importance of preventive mental health in his TV programs, conferences, seminars, and books. While his books are considered classics in psychology, this latest work, ‘Ezber Bozan Hayat,’ is also poised to become an essential bedside read for individuals.

The interview book, conducted by Dr. Tuğba Şimşek and Emre Şimşek, consists of 9 chapters and includes the following headings:

- Family, social environment, identity,

- Education, search for meaning,

- Being a family,

- Struggle, stance, success,

- Turkey’s challenging periods, struggle for democracy,

- A groundbreaking perspective against difficulties and adversities,

- Faith-science relationship, capturing the spirit of the times,

- Digital world, social media, and Generation Z,

- Open platform…

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