In my room: the recovery journey as encountered by a psychiatrist
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Main Author: Lucey, Jim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dublin Gill & Macmillan 2014
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Item Description:Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Room; Chapter 2: Experience; Carmel; Richard; Liam; 'The day came ... ' Anaïs Nin; 'Late Fragment' Raymond Carver; 'Experience' Emily Dickinson; Chapter 3: Worth; Alyson; 'With a Flower' Emily Dickinson; Chapter 4: Freedom; Colm; Brian; Alex; 'Postscript' Seamus Heaney; 'The Mower' Philip Larkin; 'Delight in Disorder' Robert Herrick; Chapter 5: Memory; Dorothy; Jack; Margaret; 'New Every Morning' Susan Coolidge; 'My Papa's Waltz' Theodore Roethke; 'Piano' D.H. Lawrence; Chapter 6: Truth; Eoin; 'Trust' D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 7: BalanceKathleen; Andrew; 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' W.B. Yeats; 'Up-Hill' Christina Rossetti; Chapter 8: Hope; Mrs Jones and her grandson Paul; 'Hope is the Thing with Feathers' Emily Dickinson; 'Pain Has an Element of Blank' Emily Dickinson; Chapter 9: Possibilities; Caroline; 'The Road Not Taken' Robert Frost; Notes; Further Reading; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Copyright; About the Author; About Gill & Macmillan
Jim Lucey has been working for more than 25 years with patients suffering from mental health problems. Every day, people at their most vulnerable present to Jim in his room at St Patrick's University Hospital and reveal their fears, their traumas and human predicaments. Most of the assessments described in this book took place in this room
Physical Description:278 pages
ISBN:9780717159505
0717159507

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