Max Heinrich

Reflections of a Cynical Clinical Psychologist (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In real time accounts from the 'front line', this book gives the reader a participant experience of the daily ups and downs of the mental health professional, calling attention to the human realities of the system's dysfunction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000026436
• Artikelnr.: 58680275

Autorenporträt

Max Heinrich, PhD., is a clinical psychologist who earned his PhD from Cornell University in 1968. He has worked primarily with the seriously and persistently mentally ill in hospital settings. For most of that time he directed various inpatient and outpatient services. He has won local, state and national awards for public advocacy on behalf of his profession. Currently his week is divided between treating patients and teaching students on a psychiatric inpatient unit in a public hospital, as well as maintaining an extensive private practice.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
INSTITUTIONS
1. GRADUATE SCHOOL
2. THE CITY HOSPITAL
3. THE STATE HOSPITAL
4. THE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: "GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR"
CHALLENGING CLINICAL CIRCUMSTANCES
5. COMPROMISED PATIENT CARE
6. PATIENT DEATHS
7. STAFF PARTINGS
8. PSYCHOTHERAPY
9. WWII HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
10. TESTIFYING IN COURT
11. SCREENING OF POLICE APPLICANTS
12. CLINICIANS IN HARM'S WAY
13. CURIOUS AND TROUBLESOME CLINICAL EXPERIENCES
14. ABSURD STAFF BEHAVIOR
15. AWKWARD MOMENTS
16. PRACTICING WHEN OUT OF THE OFFICE: NO DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED!
A CHALLENGING SYSTEM
17. MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY
18. THE APPEAL OF 'PRESCRIPTION PRIVILEGES': "IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, JOIN
'EM!"
19. HEALTH INSURANCE ABUSES: OR UNSURANCE?
20. MONEY INEVITABLY DRIVES POLICY...AND POLICY LOSES
21. ESCALATING ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL: ALL'S WELL THAT ORWELL
22. MOSTLY BUSINESS, MOST OF THE TIME: MINI-MALISM
23. ADMINISTRATIVE ABUSES OF POWER: PETTY MAL TREATMENT
AFTERWARD
APPUNDIX