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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linde, Paul R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric emergencies--Popular works.

Psychiatric emergencies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612359866

9781282359864

128235986X

9780520944558

0520944550

OCLC:

773564983