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A respected American psychiatrist analyzes the psychiatric profession, subjecting it to basic scientific inquiry. 15,000 first printing.
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T. M. Luhrmann is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of two previous books, <b>Persuasions of the Witch's Craft</b> and <b>The Good Parsi</b>. She lives in Solana Beach, California.
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ndbreaking book, Tanya Luhrmann -- among the most admired of young American anthropologists -- brings her acute intelligence and her sophisticated powers of observation to bear on the world of psychiatry. On the basis of extensive interviews with patients and doctors, as well as day-to-day investigative fieldwork in residency programs, private psychiatric hospitals, and state hospitals, Luhrmann shows us how psychiatrists are trained, how they develop their particular way of seeing and listening to their patients, what makes a psychiatrist successful, and how the enormous ambiguities in the field affect its practitioners and patients.<br><br>How do psychiatrists learn to do what they do? What is it like for psychiatrists to deal with people who are in emotional extremity? How does the choice between drug therapy and talk therapy, each of which requires very different skills, affect the way psychiatrists understand their patients? Boldly and with sharp insight, Luhrmann takes the reade
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0679421912
- ISBN 13 9780679421917
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages337
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