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Author Ablow, Keith R.

Title Anatomy of a psychiatric illness : healing the mind and the brain / Keith Russell Ablow ; foreword by George D. Lundberg ; illustrations by Richard Downs
Edition First edition
Published Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description xix, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Thinking about patients. The man who lost his family -- Classrooms, cadavers, compassion and the soul -- The art of psychiatric diagnosis -- The woman with burning feet -- Oliver, Maria, and psychiatry's diagnostic and statistical manual -- The flood -- A tapestry of understandings: the psychiatric formulation -- Thinking about the brain. Broken -- Alone with the brain -- Schizophrenia -- Mood disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Personality disorders -- Eating disorders -- A note on the brain and the mind -- Thinking about the mind. The maggot -- The workings of the human mind -- Encountering the mind -- Connections -- Psychiatric disorders and the mind -- Thinking about society. The man with nowhere to go -- Psychiatry by numbers
Analysis Mental Disorders case studies
Mental illness Case studies
Psychiatry Philosophy
Psychiatry Popular works
Psychotherapy case studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index
Subject Mental illness -- Case studies.
Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
Psychiatry -- Popular works.
Mental Disorders.
Psychotherapy.
Genre/Form Case Reports.
LC no. 93013483
ISBN 0880485213 (alk. paper)