Rene J. Muller

Psych ER (eBook, ePUB)

Psychiatric Patients Come to the Emergency Room

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the experience of evaluating over 2000 emergency room patients, Rene Muller explores the important role of psychiatry in emergency room medicine. In a series of brief essays, many of which initially appeared in Psychiatric Times,

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135060725
• Artikelnr.: 42828285

Autorenporträt

Rene J. Muller has evaluated over 3,000 psychiatric patients in the emergency room and recounted the stories told to him there in numerous articles for Psychiatric Times, the most widely read psychiatric publication in North America. He is also the author of Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession (Analytic Press, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Straightforward Stories. Depression: The World Pushing Down. Panic:
The World Coming Apart. Borderline Personality: A Brittle World, A Labile
Mood. Multiple Personality: Taking on the World with More Than One
Identity. Alcohol: Chemically Altering One's World by Mouth. Drugs:
Chemically Altering One'sWorld by Nose and Vein. Bipolar Depression: The
World Too Low Down. Bipolar Mania: The World Too High Up. Schizophrenia:
Being Unable to Share the World with Others. Alzheimer's Dementia: The
World Dissolves as the Glue of Memory Cracks. Part II: Complex Stories.
Panic Disorder Fed by Emotional Dependence. Histrionics Mistaken for
Schizophrenia. Part III: Veiled and Bizarre Stories. Malingerers and
Manipulators. The "Dump." The "Stumble." Murder and Mayhem, Maybe. Part IV:
Stories with a Medical Component. Why Is This Schizophrenic Patient Hearing
Voices? How a Stomachache Turned a Head. A Serious Overdose, But of What? A
Closed Head Injury Leads to Paranoid Psychosis. A Patient Who Risked Death
Trying to Drown His Hiccups. Delirium Missed as the Reason for Psychotic
Symptoms. Part V: How Patient's Stories Lead to a Psychiatric Diagnosis.
The Narrative in Psychiatric Diagnosis: It's the Story, Stupid!
Alexithymia: When There Is No Story To Tell. Renegotiating the "Contract
for Safety." Jean-Paul Sartre in the ER.