Danger to self : on the front line with an ER psychiatrist

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

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 tak...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Linde, Paul R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Psychiatric emergencies > Popular works.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
Mental illness.
Mentally ill women.
mental disorders.
mentally ill.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Mental illness > Treatment
Mental illness
Psychiatric emergencies
Personal narratives
Popular works
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
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Table of 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.

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