The Thaw: Reclaiming the Person for Psychiatry

ISBN-13: 9780881633801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 210 str.

Paul Genova; Paul H. Ornstein

Opis

In an era of managed care and an emphasis on quick and measurable symptom relief by appropriate medication and shory manualized psychotherapies, this work puts forward the case for persistent benefits of open-ended psychotherapy. It extracts the best from both psychodynamic and biological approaches and uses them to help the patient.

Spis treści

Part I: Seven Visitations. Introduction to Part I. Dream Rebuts Therapist. Catfish on the Bottom. The Permanent Trip. Lacan at Bonus Bagels. Living with Doubt. "I'm Not Your Urban Renewal Project." The New Covenant. Part II: Supervision and Self-Disclosure. Introduction to Part II. The Thaw. Here Are the Scales. Snow White. Raffaela's Hug. "I Just Keep Playing the Same Note". Getting Two (2.0) People into the Room. The Endless Walk of the Fool. Rockabye Baby: Winnicott's Hatred. Our Trainees' Calling, Our Job Description. Part III: The Psychiatric Persuasion. Introduction to Part III. Why I Love Lewiston. Take Care of Him. God or Vending Machine? Requiem for Psychoanalysis. The Shifting Metaphors of Biological Psychiatry. The Coming Polarization fo Psychotherapy. Psychiatric Wisdom. Getting Macie off the Mountain. Part IV. Still Carving, Day and Night. Introduction to Part IV. Is American Psychistry Permanently Ill? Boundary Violations and the Fall from Eden. There Are Really Only Three Kinds of Psychotherapy. Rabbi Among the Mechanics. What Does Suffering Do? Psychotherapy after Mohammed Atta. The Domestication of the Truth. The Owl Stick.

O autorze

Paul Genova, M.D., is a graduate of Harvard College and Dartmouth Medical School. He briefly practiced general medicine in East Kentucky before returning to Portland, ME for psychiatric training. There he has practiced general psychiatry and psychotherapy since 1982, both in private practice and in a variety of public settings. A Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Dr. Genova writes a well-known column for his profession's most widely circulated publication, Psychiatric Times and is a Contributing Editor of Voices: Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists.