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This book addresses the issues of treating temporary insanity manifesting as suicidal, homicidal, and gravely disabled in correctional facilities. Limitations of psychotropic medications, issues in scientific research and medical publications resulting in misinformation, and the complexities of mental illness and treatment of mental illness are explored from the point of view of the practicing psychiatrist.

Produktbeschreibung
This book addresses the issues of treating temporary insanity manifesting as suicidal, homicidal, and gravely disabled in correctional facilities. Limitations of psychotropic medications, issues in scientific research and medical publications resulting in misinformation, and the complexities of mental illness and treatment of mental illness are explored from the point of view of the practicing psychiatrist.
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Autorenporträt
I have been the Chairman of a Department of Psychiatry in a Community Hospital, Medical Director of a four county and a five county Mental Health Center in Indiana from 1984 to 1986 and 1991 to 2001. I have practiced psychiatry in Regional Medical Centers, Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center in Hazard, Kentucky. I have practiced psychiatry in Michigan Prisons including Riverside Psychiatric Hospital in Ionia Michigan: Bellamy Creek Prison in Ionia Michigan: I-Max prison in Ionia Michigan; Brooks Prison in Muskegon, Michigan; Pelican Bay Prison in Crescent City, California; CSP-Sac prison in Folsom, California; San Quentin Prison in San Quentin, California. I have worked in Forensic Psychiatric hospitals including Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan; Patton State Hospital in Patton, California; and Atascadero State Hospital in Atascadero, California. I have testified as a psychiatric expert witness in probate court, civil, and criminal trials in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and California. I have worked at Fort Hood, Texas with active military suffering from PTSD, closed head injuries and other stress related mental illnesses. I have worked in private practice clinics as well as the numerous public agencies listed above. I share my experience with the public to assist in understanding what psychiatry can and cannot do. I am here to do no harm, and to help if I can