In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist - Softcover

Klitzman, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451613652 ISBN 13: 9781451613650

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2010

Synopsis

Sharing the agony of his patients in the "Survival Ward," a psychiatric resident's firsthand account reveals his struggles with the homeless, suicidal, and paranoid, and his frustrations with hospital politics and the limitations of an inexact "science." 12,500 first printing.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"EXCELLENT . . . I recommend [Klitzman's] book as a valuable account of one particular kind of training that goes into becoming a psychiatrist."
--The Washington Post
Fresh from medical school, Robert Klitzman began his residency in psychiatry with excitement and a sense of mission. But he was not prepared for what he found inside the city psychiatric center where he was to spend three grueling years.
In truth, as Dr. Klitzman's absorbing account of his apprenticeship reveals, he never ceased to be surprised--by his patients, by the senior psychiatrists' conflicting advice on how to help them, and by the unpredictable results of the therapies, both psychoanalytic and biologic, that he and his fellow residents practiced.
Nights in the emergency room, professional controversy, the minefield of hospital politics, the stress of his own therapy--everything is here, in a passionate and illuminating analysis of a doctor's struggle against tremendous odds to banish his patients' demons.
"[AN] INSIGHTFUL MEMOIR . . . RECOMMENDED."
--Library Journal
"A thorough diagnosis of contemporary psychiatry's intellectual lacunae, as well as its personal and institutional warts."
--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Robert Klitzman is currently an Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow at Columbia University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1451613652
• ISBN 13: 9781451613650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368