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Bits and Pieces of a Psychiatrist’s Life

Author : Barry Blackwell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479724378
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Bits and Pieces of a Psychiatrist’s Life written by Barry Blackwell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered like flotsam from an ocean of experience, Bits and Pieces of a Psychiatrist's Life is a memoir told in thought-provoking essays, poems, short stories, and scientific articles chosen for lay readers. An innovative format provides thirty-one pieces covering personal and professional themes which include "bits" of differing lengths and styles. Barry Blackwell creates a mosaic from some of the most exciting moments in the history of psychiatry and melds them in kaleidoscopic fashion with his various professional and personal roles.

Bits and Pieces of a Psychiatrist's Life

Author : Barry Blackwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781961395015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Bits and Pieces of a Psychiatrist's Life written by Barry Blackwell and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BITS and PIECES of a Psychiatrist's Story This memoir is shaped after Mark Twain's idea to hit the highlights and omit tedious everyday life. Each PIECE (theme) is complemented by BITS; short stories, poems and medical essays or editorials. Born in England, Barry grew up in India during World War II; evacuated when the Japanese bombed Calcutta, he survived the German U-Boats but arrived home in time for the V 1 and V2 rockets. He spent ages 5 thru 18 in boarding schools safe from amebic dysentery and warfare. During the Korean War he was a sergeant and sanitary inspector in the Medical Corps with a motorcycle and then completed medical and psychiatric training at Cambridge University, Guys' Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry. He also moonlighted in family practice, served in a reserve Field Ambulance (every rank from private to major) and authored editorials for the Lancet. While a resident Barry explained the interaction between MAO inhibitor antidepressants and tyramine in cheese. After graduation he worked in family practice and helped develop a survey to detect psychiatric distress. In 1968 he immigrated to America, working as Director of Psychotropic Drug Research for industry before returning to academia, serving as founding Chair of psychiatry in two medical schools and as Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Behavioral Medicine. His interests are in medical education, psychopharmacology, psychosomatic medicine, patient compliance and homelessness. He is editor of five volumes and author of over 200 scientific articles.

Bits and Pieces

Author : Barry Blackwell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781479724369
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Bits and Pieces written by Barry Blackwell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered like flotsam from an ocean of experience, Bits and Pieces of a Psychiatrist's Life is a memoir told in thought-provoking essays, poems, short stories, and scientific articles chosen for lay readers. An innovative format provides thirty-one pieces covering personal and professional themes which include "bits" of differing lengths and styles. Barry Blackwell creates a mosaic from some of the most exciting moments in the history of psychiatry and melds them in kaleidoscopic fashion with his various professional and personal roles.

Saving Normal

Author : Allen Frances, M.D.
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062229273
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Saving Normal written by Allen Frances, M.D. and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. These challenges are a normal part of being human, and they should not be treated as psychiatric disease. However, today millions of people who are really no more than "worried well" are being diagnosed as having a mental disorder and are receiving unnecessary treatment. In Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of the world's most influential psychiatrists, warns that mislabeling everyday problems as mental illness has shocking implications for individuals and society: stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, misallocation of medical resources, and draining of the budgets of families and the nation. We also shift responsibility for our mental well-being away from our own naturally resilient and self-healing brains, which have kept us sane for hundreds of thousands of years, and into the hands of "Big Pharma," who are reaping multi-billion-dollar profits. Frances cautions that the new edition of the "bible of psychiatry," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5), will turn our current diagnostic inflation into hyperinflation by converting millions of "normal" people into "mental patients." Alarmingly, in DSM-5, normal grief will become "Major Depressive Disorder"; the forgetting seen in old age is "Mild Neurocognitive Disorder"; temper tantrums are "Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder"; worrying about a medical illness is "Somatic Symptom Disorder"; gluttony is "Binge Eating Disorder"; and most of us will qualify for adult "Attention Deficit Disorder." What's more, all of these newly invented conditions will worsen the cruel paradox of the mental health industry: those who desperately need psychiatric help are left shamefully neglected, while the "worried well" are given the bulk of the treatment, often at their own detriment. Masterfully charting the history of psychiatric fads throughout history, Frances argues that whenever we arbitrarily label another aspect of the human condition a "disease," we further chip away at our human adaptability and diversity, dulling the full palette of what is normal and losing something fundamental of ourselves in the process. Saving Normal is a call to all of us to reclaim the full measure of our humanity.

How Can I Help?

Author : David Goldbloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476706794
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book How Can I Help? written by David Goldbloom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of Canadian psychiatrist David Goldbloom.

Shrink Rap

Author : Dinah Miller
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 142140074X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Shrink Rap written by Dinah Miller and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most useful books I’ve read about mental illnesses . . . It demystifies our complicated medical and legal system.” —Pete Earley, New York Times-bestselling author of Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness Finally, a book that explains everything you ever wanted to know about psychiatry! In Shrink Rap, three psychiatrists from different specialties provide frank answers to questions such as: • What is psychotherapy, how does it work, and why don’t all psychiatrists do it? • When are medications helpful? • What happens on a psychiatric unit? • Can Prozac make people suicidal? • Why do many doctors not like Xanax? • Why do we have an insanity defense? • Why do people confess to crimes they didn’t commit? Based on the authors’ hugely popular blog and podcast series, this book is for patients and everyone else who is curious about how psychiatrists work. Using compelling patient vignettes, Shrink Rap explains how psychiatrists think about and address the problems they encounter, from the mundane (how much to charge) to the controversial (involuntary hospitalization). The authors face the field’s shortcomings head-on, revealing what other doctors may not admit about practicing psychiatry. Candid and humorous, Shrink Rap gives a closeup view of psychiatry, peering into technology, treatments, and the business of the field. If you’ve ever wondered how psychiatry really works, let the Shrink Rappers explain. “A fascinating peek into the minds of those who study minds.” —The Washington Post “Most of us easily understand how to treat a broken arm, but a fractured psyche? That’s an entirely different matter. Or is it? This clear-headed presentation of psychiatric services and methods covers a lot of ground and achieves a conversational tone that’s both educational and entertaining.” —Baltimore Magazine

Rearview

Author : Barry B. Perlman
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098354602
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Rearview written by Barry B. Perlman and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rearview: A Psychiatrist Reflects on Practice and Advocacy in a Time of Healthcare System Change Dr. Barry B. Perlman, a graduate of Yale Medical School, offers an overview of his career in medicine. From his first inklings of interest in mental health tied to his grandmother's bouts of severe depression and his mother's volunteer work with persons discharged from psychiatric hospitals, to his summer jobs in hospitals, through to closing his practice and retirement, Perlman recounts the entire arc of his psychiatric and medical career. Through recalled anecdotes Perlman brings readers along by writing about experiences from medical school and his psychiatric residency. He describes his first professional experiences with dying, his cadaver, and clinical rotations such as neurosurgery and psychiatry. He experienced the English National Health Service when taking his OB/GYN clerkship in London. Readers will be introduced to several of his dedicated professors and their eccentricities. Other chapters introduce topics central to the practice of psychiatry. They include consideration of suicide, violence, poverty, and electroconvulsive therapy. One chapter is revealingly illustrated with art done by patients and ponders the question of what makes art, art. Many of the chapters include interesting case presentations. Dr. Perlman, an activist psychiatrist, served as president of the New York State Psychiatric Association. He was appointed by NYS Governor George Pataki as chair of the NYS Mental Health services Council and to the State Hospital Review and Planning Council. Based in participation, he describes the process and tensions involved in shaping public policy. Readers of Rearview will be taken on a tour of the multidimensional life of an activist psychiatrist whose professional life encompassed provision of direct clinical care, running a psychiatric department under challenging circumstances, and trying to improve the lives of persons serious mental illness.

Psychotherapy

Author : Louis Breger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135149581X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Psychotherapy written by Louis Breger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the best therapeutic tradition, Louis Breger describes contemporary theories and research in the field of analytic psychotherapy. Through the framework of his personal experiences as a scholar, researcher, and therapist, he focuses on his relationships with patients over the span of his fifty-year career. He records their reactions, in their own words, to their experience with psychotherapy many years after its conclusion. The author surveyed over thirty former patients to see if their progress, begun in therapy, had continued, expanded, or regressed. They were asked to highlight what they remembered as being most helpful, therapeutic, or curative in their treatment. The book is a unique long-term follow-up demonstrating the effectiveness of modern analytic psychotherapy. Breger primarily deals with the connections between therapist and patient. This is a professional memoir of the life of the psychotherapist dealing with trials as a young practitioner, lessons learned, and personal reflections on the choices, including mistakes, made along the way. Young therapists, and those who are in or considering psychotherapy, will find it helpful to have access to this self-reflective approach. Extracts from the patients are extensive and informative, giving the reader the opportunity to see therapy from their perspectives. The book also centers on the development of the therapist over his career span. Breger acknowledges that his understanding of patient care has improved over time in the eyes of his patients. In a larger sense, the book contains lessons for all psychotherapists. This is an important, unique, and innovative work. *Click here for an interview with the author. *Click here for an interview with the author on KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny

Falling Into the Fire

Author : Christine Montross
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143125710
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Falling Into the Fire written by Christine Montross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. We meet a young woman who habitually commits self-injury, having ingested light bulbs, a box of nails, and a steak knife, among other objects. Her repeated visits to the hospital incite the frustration of the staff, leading Montross to examine how emotion can interfere with proper care. A recent college graduate, dressed in a tunic and declaring that love emanates from everything around him, is brought to the ER by his concerned girlfriend. Is it ecstasy or psychosis? What legal ability do doctors have to hospitalize—and sometimes medicate—a patient against his will? A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of harming her child. Is she psychotic and a danger or does she suffer from obsessive thoughts? Her course of treatment—and her child’s future—depends upon whether she receives the correct diagnosis. Each case study presents its own line of inquiry, leading Montross to seek relevant psychiatric knowledge from diverse sources. A doctor of uncommon curiosity and compassion, Montross discovers lessons in medieval dancing plagues, in leading forensic and neurological research, and in moments from her own life. Beautifully written, deeply felt, Falling Into the Fire brings us inside the doctor’s mind, illuminating the grave human costs of mental illness as well as the challenges of diagnosis and treatment. Throughout, Montross confronts the larger question of psychiatry: What is to be done when a patient’s experiences cannot be accounted for, or helped, by what contemporary medicine knows about the brain? When all else fails, Montross finds, what remains is the capacity to abide, to sit with the desperate in their darkest moments. At once rigorous and meditative, Falling Into the Fire is an intimate portrait of psychiatry, allowing the reader to witness the humanity of the practice and the enduring mysteries of the mind

Lifestyle Psychiatry

Author : Douglas L. Noordsy, M.D.
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 1615371664
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Lifestyle Psychiatry written by Douglas L. Noordsy, M.D. and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With chapters that focus on developing a robust therapeutic alliance and inspiring patients to assume responsibility for their own well-being, this guide provides a framework for lasting, sustainable lifestyle changes.

Naked Poems

Author : Barry Blackwell M.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524547123
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Naked Poems written by Barry Blackwell M.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This slim volume is an innovative, thought-provoking, encouragement of the art and joy of reading poems. Its author is an internationally well-known psychopharmacologist who, at age eighty-two, revisits seventy-six poems derived from his personal and professional life, beginning at age fifty. The book opens by exploring the metaphor behind the title, the way in which words in poems mirror clothes in coutureeach covering yet enhancing and revealing what lies beneath. In a preparatory exercise, this metaphor is expressed in four poetic formshaiku, sonnet, classical, and free formeach examined to establish the sources of impact on the aesthetics, emotion, and intellect of the reader. The principles established are then applied by the reader, with the guidance of the author, to explore each of several poems in eight areas of life: introspection, humor and satire, travel and places, life and leisure, mental health matters, spiritual dimensions, age, and infirmity. The reader explores each poem with regard to form, posture on the page, imagery, metaphor, aesthetics, and structure, including syntax, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and repetition. In total, this emphasizes the pithy way in which poetry can best prose in elegance, beauty, and brevity. In addition to sharing and enhancing the joy of reading poems, this includes an amateurs effort to reverse the well-documented dwindling interest of people in the genre, perhaps contributed to by the increasingly esoteric, abstract, and obscure nature of contemporary poems.

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

Author : Bandy X. Lee
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 1250212863
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump written by Bandy X. Lee and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal. Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him? That question still plagues us. The Trump administration has proven as chaotic and destructive as its opponents feared, and the man at the center of it all remains a cipher. Constrained by the APA’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to weigh in on the issue have shied away from discussing it at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both. The prestigious mental health experts who have contributed to the revised and updated version of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump argue that their moral and civic "duty to warn" supersedes professional neutrality. Whatever affects him, affects the nation: From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond. With eight new essays (about one hundred pages of new material), this edition will cover the dangerous ramifications of Trump's unnatural state. It’s not all in our heads. It’s in his.

Danger to Self

Author : Paul R. Linde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520269837
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Danger to Self written by Paul R. Linde and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, 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.

The Enchanted Self

Author : Barbara Becker Holstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9789057025020
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Self written by Barbara Becker Holstein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how getting in touch with "The Enchanted Self" - our core of health & strength - promotes positive change.

Shrinktalk

Author : Michael Blumenfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736647318
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Shrinktalk written by Michael Blumenfield and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the many psychological issues from an expert psychiatrist's experience, looking at the situations from both the professional's point of view as well as from the patient's. In language clearly understandable by laymen as well as professionals, the author addresses a variety of issues professionals deal with in their work.

Guides, Guardians and Angels

Author : D. J. Conway
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738711241
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Guides, Guardians and Angels written by D. J. Conway and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We may not see or hear them, but angels and spirit guides are always with us. From building healthy relationships to attaining career goals to experiencing spiritual growth, these divine companions are there to lead us down the right path just when we need their help the most. Popular author D. J. Conway shows you how to develop a personal and meaningful relationship with your spirit guides to improve your life. Try unique meditations, guided visualizations, chants, rituals, and spells to connect with power animals, nature spirits, Light and Shadow angels, and the spirits of friends, family, and even pets. In doing so, you will experience personal empowerment and tremendous spiritual growth. Enriched by Conway's own experiences, this book on angels and spirit guides provides unparalleled spiritual guidance, ultimately revealing how the profound impact of these guardian angels and spirit teachers can bring a sense of peace and direction to your life.

Remarkable Healings

Author : Shakuntala Modi
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612831095
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Remarkable Healings written by Shakuntala Modi and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry remains an emerging discipline. Many people suffer from ailments that have no apparent cause, no obvious cure. Quite by accident, while using hypnotherapy, Dr. Modi discovered that pastlife regression can be a beneficial treatment. Many of these patients, under hypnosis, claimed to have spirits attached to their bodies and energy fields, creating psychological and physical problems. Based on years of experience, Dr. Modi describes techniques that release these spirits, revealing how patients can sometimes recover within a few sessions. While most doctors would agree that emotional states affect our health, few would give credence to spiritual "influences." In this truly groundbreaking book, Dr. Modi presents evidence that something beyond the physical affects the health of many people, and urges medical scientists to objectively assess this revolutionary approach to mental and, often, physical illness. Pioneers have the courage to put aside the status quo and evaluate what the evidence shows, even if it defies the prevailing logic of the time. Both physicians and the general public should explore the pioneering work of Dr. Modiwork which no doubt has produced many remarkable healings.