Introduction; General Issues; Philosophical Considerations; Open-Heart and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery; Psychiatric and Neurological Aspects of Cardiac Surgery; Cardioplegia; Time; Psychological Preparation of the Patient for Cardiac Surgery; Stopping Time and Cardiac Surgery; The Mind and Time; Thoughts and Feelings Before Cardiac Surgery; The Soul; The Soul and Time; Perceptions and Cardiac Surgery; Cardiac Surgery and the Body-Mind Problem; Transference; Quality of Life and Rehabilitation; Psychodynamic Aspects; The Psychodynamic Experience of Cardiac Surgery; On Borrowed Time: In The Final Analysis, All Cardiac Patients Live On Borrowed Time; Body Image; On Being Mindless, Nirvana, Freedom from the Self (Sufi), Pure Consciousness, and the Hibernated State During Cardiac Surgery; The Self and an Appointment With Destiny; A New Life
