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The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner 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.
List of contents
Preface
Part I. The Couch, 1980–1994
1. The Work: Learning to Do Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 1980–1984
2. Tigers in the Night: A Therapist’s Own Therapy, 1981–1988
3. The Enchanted Garden: Psychoanalysis in the Psychiatry Marketplace, 1985
4. Dreams of the Insane Help Greatly in Their Cure: Demolition of the Psychoanalytic Mothership, 1994
Part II. The Clinic, 1985–2000
5. Treating the City: DSM Psychiatry in the Real World of the City Hospital, 1989
6. Reinventing the Egg: Translating the DSM Across Cultures and Languages, 1990–1994
7. The Red Box: Digging Deep Into the DSM, Late 1990s
8. Call: Testing the DSM Off Hours, 1998
9. Less with Less: Stripping the DSM to the Essentials or Beyond, 1998–2000
Part III. The Scanner, 1997–2023
10. Flights Into Health: Learned Safety and the New Neuropsychiatry, 2000–2007
11. Curing Families: Genes, Circuits, and the Frontiers of Treatment, 2005–2009
12. Off Label: Revisioning Drugs in the Age of Neuroscience, 1997–2023
13. Mind Wandering, Then and Now: New Views Over Three Eras, 2005–2023
14. Floating Brains and Magic Mushrooms: Ancient Psychedelics Test the Progress of Psychiatry, 2019 to Today
Afterword
References
Index
About the author
David Hellerstein is professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and director of the Depression Evaluation Service at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. His previous books include Heal Your Brain: How the New Neuropsychiatry Can Help You Go from Better to Well (2011); the memoir A Family of Doctors (1994); and two novels. Hellerstein is currently researching psychedelic treatments of depression and other disorders.
Summary
The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner 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.
