Danger to self : on the front line with an ER psychiatrist / Paul R. Linde.

Author
Linde, Paul R. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Description
xxiv, 253 pages ; 22 cm

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    "Paul R. Linde takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and repair shattered lives. As he and his colleagues encounter patients who are hallucinating, drunk, catatonic, aggressive, suicidal, high on drugs, paranoid, and physically sick, Linde examines the many ethical, legal, moral, and medical issues that confront today's psychiatric providers. He describes a profession under siege from the outside--health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, government regulators, and even "patients' rights" advocates--and from the inside--biomedical and academic psychiatrists who have forgotten to care for the patient and have instead become checklist-marking pill-peddlers. While lifting the veil on a crucial area of psychiatry that is as real as it gets, Danger to Self also injects a healthy dose of compassion into the practice of medicine and psychiatry"--Jacket.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • The ER doc : who's calling the shots?
    • The rookie : Bruno's man down
    • The scrambler : how to prevent a murder
    • The psychodynamo : learning to listen with a professional ear
    • The jailer : if you want to go, you have to stay
    • The jury : playing the suicide card
    • The clairvoyant : whose life is it anyway?
    • The speed cop : talking to Tina
    • The witness : trauma underlies the pain
    • The judge : playing God from a psychiatric standpoint.
    ISBN
    • 9780520249844 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0520249844 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780520269835 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0520269837 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2009006144
    OCLC
    306804547
    Other standard number
    • 3063615
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