{"product_id":"danger-to-self-on-the-front-line-with-an-er-psychiatrist-paperback","title":"Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Linde\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R. Linde takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and repair shattered lives. As he and his colleagues encounter patients who are hallucinating, drunk, catatonic, aggressive, suicidal, high on drugs, paranoid, and physically sick, Linde examines the many ethical, legal, moral, and medical issues that confront today's psychiatric providers. He describes a profession under siege from the outside--health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, government regulators, and even \"patients' rights\" advocates--and from the inside--biomedical and academic psychiatrists who have forgotten to care for the patient and have instead become checklist-marking pill-peddlers. While lifting the veil on a crucial area of psychiatry that is as real as it gets, \u003ci\u003eDanger to Self\u003c\/i\u003e also injects a healthy dose of compassion into the practice of medicine and psychiatry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinde's \u003ci\u003eDanger to Self\u003c\/i\u003e is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.--Tanya Luhrmann, author of \u003ci\u003eOf Two Minds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Linde illustrates academic points with his personal experiences quite deftly. He comes across as a warm-hearted, thoughtful, dedicated physician doing a difficult job as best he can. His book offers an authentic behind-the-scenes look at how a psychiatrist thinks and practices.\" --Frank Huyler, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Blood of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this provocative first-person account, \u003ci\u003eDanger to Self\u003c\/i\u003e, psychiatrist Paul Linde takes us to the troubling front lines of America's mental healthcare crisis. With one in three people experiencing some form of mental illness in their lifetimes, this is a story that needs to be told. Linde waves a red flag that can't be ignored.\"--Kemble Scott, author of \u003ci\u003eSoMa\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sower\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDanger to Self \u003c\/i\u003eis an excellent account of treating acute mental illness. Dr Linde presents powerful stories of disturbed minds and circumstances, of lives in upheaval due to psychosis, addictions, and despair. It is also the story of the story of a psychiatrist who tends to those who are ill enough to warrant treatment in a psychiatric emergency room. This is a well-written book, compassionate, and well worth the reading.\"--Kay Redfield Jamison, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Unquiet Mind \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul R. Linde\u003c\/b\u003e, MD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and the author of \u003ci\u003eOf Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 8.01 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424840835174,"sku":"9780520269835","price":53.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/SGpKNFVWaTRSMzFhc2VVUWR5UXoxQT09.webp?v=1775613028","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/danger-to-self-on-the-front-line-with-an-er-psychiatrist-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}