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Availability:In StockContributor:Karen L. Fund, David James Fisher (Contribution by), Chloe B. Fisher (Contribution by)Publish date:2020-10-07Pages:136
Language:EnglishPublisher:IpbooksISBN-13:9781949093575ISBN-10:1949093573UPC:9781949093575Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SC8PEB0VK2

Chance can change a life, and it certainly changed mine. As a third-year undergraduate at Harvard, I overheard a conversation about a college volunteer program in the local state mental hospital, and for the next two years I volunteered on the back wards of the hospital. Each week, I would talk with Mary, a gray-haired, tired woman who had been sitting quietly in a corner for three years. Over the academic year that we talked, she regained enough function to leave the hospital, and I believe our conversations were part of what made that happen. My experience with Mary would prove to change the course of my life.

After graduating from college, I went on to graduate study in academic psychology, but I changed direction as I realized how much I missed the experience with Mary and other patients. I went on to medical school and from there to psychiatry. Now, more than fifty years later, I have two stories to tell: my own, and how psychiatry changed during my working lifetime.

I spent my career as an academic psychiatrist working in a public hospital, where I taught young physicians and other trainees to take care of sick, poor people while also caring for patients myself. I loved my work; but at the same time, I saw how psychiatry was changing, and I was troubled by what I saw. When I trained in the 1960s, psychiatrists cared for patients as individuals. Now, they push pills and promise more than they can deliver. In this book, I describe that change and I offer a proposal for a different and better psychiatry-one that returns psychiatry to its roots and is more helpful to patients and more fulfilling for psychiatrists.

Language:EnglishPublisher:IpbooksISBN-13:9781949093575ISBN-10:1949093573UPC:9781949093575Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SC8PEB0VK2
Fund, Karen L.: - Karen L. Fund (1947-2012) was the Publisher and a founder of L.A. Style, a lifestyle and fashion magazine. She was also Associate Publisher of The L.A. Weekly, subsequently serving as Chairperson of its Board of Directors. After a career in rock music and advertising, she emerged as a major figure in print media in Los Angeles. Married to psychoanalyst David James Fisher for thirty-one years before her untimely death, Karen Fund was the loving and devoted mother of Ben Fisher and Chloe Fisher.
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