{"product_id":"the-couch-the-clinic-and-the-scanner-9780231207928","title":"The Couch the Clinic and the Scanner","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful first-person account of psychiatry’s evolution. In vivid stories and essays, David Hellerstein explores the lived experience of psychiatric work and the daunting challenges of healing the mind amid ever-changing theoretical models.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the self to itself? In this wise and beautifully written book, psychiatrist David Hellerstein suggests that we are the tools we use to measure and medicate ourselves. Over a few decades, the same anxious patient has been interpreted as having father issues, a chemical imbalance, and troubles embodied in a brain scan. All may be true and useful. All may deceive and keep patients from getting help. Must we see some views of self as showing progress over others? Hellerstein‘s personal and provocative narrative will spark necessary conversations. -- Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT, and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eAlone Together, Reclaiming Conversation,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Hellerstein began his career by learning psychoanalysis. Forty years later, he conducts groundbreaking research on brain imaging, neuroplasticity, and personalized therapeutics. In this warm, insightful, and honest book, Hellerstein tells two coming of age stories: a fascinating account of the evolution of modern psychiatry and a deeply moving memoir of his own growth as a psychiatrist and as a human being. -- Suzanne Koven, author of \u003ci\u003eLetter to a Young Female Physician\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Hellerstein provides engaging and remarkably honest insider’s perspectives on the past few decades of psychiatry in America, a fascinating period of struggles to understand one of the last great scientific frontiers—the human brain.  His personal and professional experiences shed important light on this complex world. -- Robert Klitzman, author of \u003ci\u003eIn a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhen Doctors Become Patients\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Couch, The Clinic, and the Scanner \u003c\/i\u003eis a well-written autobiographical account of the transformations of psychiatric practice over the past four decades. -- Allan V. Horwitz, Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003eHellerstein tells a thrilling story of the paradigm shifts that have swept the field of psychiatry over the last 50 years. The author superbly shows how each of the three models presented [in the book] engages a unique set of explanations—and treatments—for psychological distress. Highly recommended. * Choice Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eHighly recommended. * American Library Association (ALA) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. The Couch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, 1980–1994\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Work: Learning to Do Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 1980–1984 \u003cbr\u003e2. Tigers in the Night: A Therapist’s Own Therapy, 1981–1988\u003cbr\u003e3. The Enchanted Garden: Psychoanalysis in the Psychiatry Marketplace, 1985\u003cbr\u003e4. Dreams of the Insane Help Greatly in Their Cure: Demolition of the Psychoanalytic Mothership, 1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. The Clinic, 1985–2000\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Treating the City: \u003ci\u003eDSM\u003c\/i\u003e Psychiatry in the Real World of the City Hospital, 1989\u003cbr\u003e6. Reinventing the Egg: Translating the \u003ci\u003eDSM \u003c\/i\u003eAcross Cultures and Languages, 1990–1994\u003cbr\u003e7. The Red Box: Digging Deep Into the \u003ci\u003eDSM\u003c\/i\u003e, Late 1990s\u003cbr\u003e8. Call: Testing the \u003ci\u003eDSM\u003c\/i\u003e Off Hours, 1998\u003cbr\u003e9. Less with Less: Stripping the \u003ci\u003eDSM\u003c\/i\u003e to the Essentials or Beyond, 1998–2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. The Scanner, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e1997–2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. Flights Into Health: Learned Safety and the New Neuropsychiatry, 2000–2007\u003cbr\u003e11. Curing Families: Genes, Circuits, and the Frontiers of Treatment, 2005–2009\u003cbr\u003e12. Off Label: Revisioning Drugs in the Age of Neuroscience, 1997–2023\u003cbr\u003e13. Mind Wandering, Then and Now: New Views Over Three Eras, 2005–2023\u003cbr\u003e14. Floating Brains and Magic Mushrooms: Ancient Psychedelics Test the Progress of Psychiatry, 2019 to Today\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400372527447,"sku":"9780231207928","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-couch-the-clinic-and-the-scanner-9780231207928","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}