Psych ER
Subtitle: Psychiatric Patients Come to the Emergency Room
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: The Analytic Press; Analytic Press
Published: December 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780881634037
Subjects: Accident & emergency medicine; Psychiatry; Psychology; Medical / Nursing; Emergency Medicine; Psychiatry - General; Medical / Psychiatry; Psychology & Psychiatry / Applied Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy; Mental Illness; Biography; Crisis intervention (Mental he; Crisis intervention (Mental health services); Emergency service; Emergency services; Mentally ill; Psychiatric hospitals
Description: Drawing on the experience of evaluating over 2000 emergency room patients, Rene Muller explores the important role of psychiatry in emergency room medicine. He discusses some of his most challenging cases, showing how psychiatry comes to the aid of medicine in managing the crises - real, imagined, and contrived - that are the everyday fare of clinicians who work in the ER. We are introduced to a world in which lies are exposed, manipulations revealed, diagnoses made, medications adjusted, and even very brief psychotherapy attempted.