Danger to self
Subtitle: on the front line with an ER psychiatrist
By: Paul R. Linde.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520249844
Subjects: Psychiatric emergencies -- Popular works; Emergency Services, Psychiatric -- Personal Narratives; Crisis Intervention -- Personal Narratives; Mental Disorders -- diagnosis -- Personal Narratives; Mental Disorders -- therapy -- Personal Narratives; Mentally Ill Persons -- psychology -- Personal Narratives; Physician's Role -- Personal Narratives
Genres: Popular works.; Personal Narratives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The ER doc : who's calling the shots?; title: The rookie : Bruno's man down; title: The scrambler : handling a homicidal maniac in your office; title: The psychodynamo : learning to listen with a professional ear; title: The jailer : if you want to go, you have to stay; title: The jury : playing the suicide card; title: The clairvoyant : whose life is it anyway?; title: The speed cop : talking to Tina; title: The witness : trauma underlies the pain; title: The judge : playing God from a psychiatric standpoint.