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- catalog abstract "To Wrestle With Demons offers a rare glimpse of a psychiatrist's innermost thoughts about how his work affects patients, deeply move him, and reflects the society in which we live. Describing the unconscious as music, "a silent and explosive score," Dr. Ablow recalls the process of helping patients ferret out the past from the deep recesses of their minds. In so doing, he becomes enchanted with "the subtlety and power of human interaction." He describes the lonely gentleman who, gaining a sense of security from hearing voices, refuses the medication that would take them away ... the depressed woman whose extreme dependence on others is rooted in a violent and abusive childhood ... the doting husband whose obsessive devotion to his ill wife harks back to the tragic loss of a childhood friend. In delving into the minds of his patients, Dr. Ablow must also wrestle with his own demons. He speaks with unabashed candor about the guilt he feels exchanging empathy for money, his struggle to help a homeless veteran, and the embarrassment of warning a mother of her son's intent to kill her. Through his eyes, the reader confronts a patient's suicide and a close colleague's murder. While sharing these private revelations, Dr. Ablow provides to us all a looking glass to society. Discussed here, among many issues are poverty, the insanity defense, patients' rights, sexual malpractice, and changing medical economics. Captured is the critical moment which psychiatry now finds itself - attempting to integrate technology with spirituality, science with the soul, and economics with empathy. To Wrestle With Demons offers anyone who has ever wondered whether psychiatrists are touched by the lives of their patients a resounding yes.".
- catalog contributor b4983889.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "To Wrestle With Demons offers a rare glimpse of a psychiatrist's innermost thoughts about how his work affects patients, deeply move him, and reflects the society in which we live. Describing the unconscious as music, "a silent and explosive score," Dr. Ablow recalls the process of helping patients ferret out the past from the deep recesses of their minds. In so doing, he becomes enchanted with "the subtlety and power of human interaction." He describes the lonely gentleman who, gaining a sense of security from hearing voices, refuses the medication that would take them away ... the depressed woman whose extreme dependence on others is rooted in a violent and abusive childhood ... the doting husband whose obsessive devotion to his ill wife harks back to the tragic loss of a childhood friend. In delving into the minds of his patients, Dr. Ablow must also wrestle with his own demons. He speaks with unabashed candor about the guilt he feels exchanging empathy for money, his struggle to help a homeless veteran, and the embarrassment of warning a mother of her son's intent to kill her. Through his eyes, the reader confronts a patient's suicide and a close colleague's murder. While sharing these private revelations, Dr. Ablow provides to us all a looking glass to society. Discussed here, among many issues are poverty, the insanity defense, patients' rights, sexual malpractice, and changing medical economics. Captured is the critical moment which psychiatry now finds itself - attempting to integrate technology with spirituality, science with the soul, and economics with empathy. To Wrestle With Demons offers anyone who has ever wondered whether psychiatrists are touched by the lives of their patients a resounding yes.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 158 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "To wrestle with demons.".
- catalog identifier "0880485469 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "To wrestle with demons.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Press,".
- catalog relation "To wrestle with demons.".
- catalog subject "616.89/001 20".
- catalog subject "Ablow, Keith R. Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "Ablow, Keith R. Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatrists Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry Collected Works.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry personal narratives.".
- catalog subject "RC437.5 .A24 1992".
- catalog subject "WZ 112.5.P6 A152t".
- catalog title "To wrestle with demons : a psychiatrist struggles to understand his patients and himself / by Keith Russell Ablow ; foreword by Robert Coles ; illustrations by Richard Downs.".
- catalog type "Anecdotes. fast".
- catalog type "text".