Robert L Taylor

Finding the Right Psychiatrist

A Guide for Discerning Consumers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

If a person doesn't know what to look for and the questions to ask, finding the right psychiatrist can be daunting. Combining over forty years of experience as a practicing psychiatrist with an insider's perspective of current psychiatric practice, Dr. Robert Taylor provides invaluable guidance to persons considering psychiatric treatment or contemplating a change of doctor in an effort to find better treatment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813566252
• ISBN-10: 0813566258
• Artikelnr.: 40047703

Autorenporträt

Robert L. Taylor, M.D.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. What Makes Finding a Psychiatrist So Difficult?
2. Psychiatric Diagnosis: The Problem with Boxes
3. Psychiatic Medications: Their Proper Role
4. Pychiatrica Politicus: The Troubling Politics of Psychiatry
5. Mind and Body: Psychiatrists' Rightful Place
6. Mind Work I: Stories Gone Wrong and How to Fix Them
7. Mind Work II: Windows into the Mind
8. Finding the Right Psychiatrist
Summary Questions & Answers
Appendix: Selected Websites
References