Mount Misery
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 034546334X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
And all the while, the doctors seem less interested in their patients' mental health than in a host of other things *managed care insurance money, drug company research grants and kickbacks, and their own professional advancement.From the Laws of Mount Misery:In psychiatry, first comes treatment, then comes diagnosis.What The House of God did for doctoring the body, Mount Misery does for doctoring the mind. Lowell, née Aliyah K. From the Laws of Mount Misery:There are no laws in psychiatry.Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Roy Basch (hero of The House of God) is lucky enough to train there *only to discover doctors caught up in the circus of competing psychiatric theories, and patients who are often there for one
When last seen, Dr. In this hospital, apparently, you need a score card to tell the doctors from the patients. Lowell, whose devotion to Freudian analysis is so extreme that she refuses to speak to patients at all. A. Heiler who gives lectures entitled "Borderline Germans and German Borderlines," or Dr. Shem (the pseudonym of psychiatrist and playwright Dr. Shem with plenty of blackly humorous grist for his mill. Roy Basch, the protagonist of Mount Misery. Anyone who has read Samuel Shem's previous novel, The House of God, will be familiar with Dr. He creates, for example, characters such as Dr. K. Basch was completing a grueling residency; Mount Misery finds him beginning his psychiatric training at an upscale New England mental hospital. Stephen Bergman) delights in broad parody. Though the humor can be clumsy
Split personality? Karen Franklin Mount Misery starts out as a great parody of psychiatry's excesses, from drug-pushing to diagnostic mania to Freudian psychoanalysis. First-year resident Roy Basch gets multiple doses of brainwashing as he makes the rounds of Mount Misery, with each theoretical school working overtime to indoctrinate him into its orthodoxy. The caricatures are over-the-top hilarious as Basch, like a military boot camp inductee, falls deeper and deeper, becoming all the while more miserable. Until we hit page 439 and it's like Shem (the pseudonym of author-psychiatrist St. S. Crotts said great read, confusing timelines. I think that this book is a pretty accurate description of psychiatry in the late 70's/early 80's which, is when Roy Basch would have been doing his psychiatric residency if following the timing of House of God. But for some unknown reason, Shem chose to set it in the early 90's use names of medications that were not around in the 70's and 80's and make cultural referances to the Clintons. Some of the patients Basch struggles to diagnose seem to be pretty clear PTSD to me, PTSD being a diagnosis that was not included in the DSM until 1980, with the DSM I. "If you loved The House of God, this is a must read. OR, if you do not like the mental health field, READ THIS" according to Kathryn Esplin. I loved the House of God, Shem's first novel, when it was first published. I grew up in a medical family and am never at a loss for words about the medical industry.Nor am I at a loss for words when it comes to the mental health field, either, having good friends and relatives in that field, as well.The style is smooth, clean, breezy and sarcastic as all heck at the psychiatric establishment of which the author is a part.The story Mount Misery tells is very realistic. The field has made great progress in the last 20 or If you loved The House of God, this is a must read. OR, if you do not like the mental health field, READ THIS I loved the House of God, Shem's first novel, when it was first published. I grew up in a medical family and am never at a loss for words about the medical industry.Nor am I at a loss for words when it comes to the mental health field, either, having good friends and relatives in that field, as well.The style is smooth, clean, breezy and sarcastic as all heck at the psychiatric establishment of which the author is a part.The story Mount Misery tells is very realistic. The field has made great progress in the last 20 or 30 years - this book was published . 0 years - this book was published