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Synopsis
Behind closed doors at one of the country’s premier psychiatric hospitals.
Keisha is a delusional pregnant woman who believes her unborn child is the messiah. David is a suicidal compulsive foot washer who undergoes electroshock therapy. Julie has multiple personality disorder, a controversial illness that some doctors believe doesn’t really exist. Combining the case histories and personal stories of these and several other patients with information about mental illness, psychiatric research, treatment theory, and government and insurance regulations, veteran writer Lisa Berger and psychopharmacologist Alexander Vuckovic, MD, chronicle the work of the doctors and staff at McLean Hospital and draw a picture of life at psychiatric institutions across the country. Informative, powerful, important, and moving, Under Observation pushes beyond stereotypes about mental illness and its treatment to portray the alternatively dismaying and uplifting truth.
“Fascinating, complex, and important.”—Joanne Greenberg, author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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Synopsis
The stories of six patients in a psychotic disorders unit explore the inner psyche and chronicle the work of doctors and researchers with patients suffering from severe disorders.
About the Author
Lisa Berger is a professional writer and the author of nine popular books.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0140251472
- ISBN 13 9780140251470
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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