Danger to self on the front line with an ER psychiatrist - Linde, Paul R. (University of California Press, 2010)
The ER doc : who's calling the shots? -- The rookie : Bruno's man down -- The scrambler : how to prevent a murder -- The psychodynamo : learning to listen with a professional ear -- The jailer : if you want to go, you have to stay -- The jury : playing the suicide card -- The clairvoyant : whose life is it anyway? -- The speed cop : talking to Tina -- The witness : trauma underlies the pain -- The judge : playing God from a psychiatric standpoint
The 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
Includes bibliographical references