A Psychiatrist Recollects: Stories from the Lives of Psychiatric Patients

by Malcolm Baker Bowers

This collection of stories, based upon the lives of psychiatric patients, articulates the span of the field as perceived through a uniquely literary sensibility. Portraying a spectrum of human situations drawn from his clinical experience - instances of suicide, psychotic behaviour, depression in old age, and other conditions encountered frequently in the learning and practice of psychiatry - Dr Bowers senses the human spirit at work in the lives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898854334
• ISBN13: 9780898854336
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Insight Books Inc
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.