In my room the recovery journey as encountered by a psychiatrist - Lucey, Jim (Gill & Macmillan, 2014)
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