LEADER 03413nam 22005894a 450 001 9910826949503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-35986-X 010 $a9786612359866 010 $a0-520-94455-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520944558 035 $a(CKB)2420000000002447 035 $a(EBL)837250 035 $a(OCoLC)773564983 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000293396 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11229023 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293396 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10272993 035 $a(PQKB)11047880 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837250 035 $a(DE-B1597)519324 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520944558 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837250 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10351962 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235986 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000002447 100 $a20090210d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDanger to self $eon the front line with an ER psychiatrist /$fPaul R. Linde 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24984-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aThe ER doc : who's calling the shots? -- The rookie : Bruno's man down -- The scrambler : how to prevent a murder -- The psychodynamo : learning to listen with a professional ear -- The jailer : if you want to go, you have to stay -- The jury : playing the suicide card -- The clairvoyant : whose life is it anyway? -- The speed cop : talking to Tina -- The witness : trauma underlies the pain -- The judge : playing God from a psychiatric standpoint. 330 $aThe psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R. Linde takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and repair shattered lives. As he and his colleagues encounter patients who are hallucinating, drunk, catatonic, aggressive, suicidal, high on drugs, paranoid, and physically sick, Linde examines the many ethical, legal, moral, and medical issues that confront today's psychiatric providers. He describes a profession under siege from the outside-health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, government regulators, and even "patients' rights" advocates-and from the inside-biomedical and academic psychiatrists who have forgotten to care for the patient and have instead become checklist-marking pill-peddlers. While lifting the veil on a crucial area of psychiatry that is as real as it gets, Danger to Self also injects a healthy dose of compassion into the practice of medicine and psychiatry. 606 $aPsychiatric emergencies$vPopular works 615 0$aPsychiatric emergencies 676 $a616.89/025 700 $aLinde$b Paul R$01692491 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826949503321 996 $aDanger to self$94069622 997 $aUNINA