In vivid stories and essays, he explores the lived experience of psychiatric work and the daunting challenges of healing the mind amid ever-changing theoretical models. David Hellerstein-a psychiatrist who has practiced in New York City since the early 1980s, working with patients, doing research, and helping run clinics and hospitals-provides a window into how the profession has transformed. The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner is an insightful first-person account of psychiatry’s evolution. And each has offered clinicians and patients new possibilities as well as pitfalls. Each has its own definitions of health and disease, its own concepts of the mind. Each of these three dominant models overturned the previous era’s assumptions, methods, treatment options, and goals. After its midcentury heyday, psychoanalysis gave way to a worldview guided by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which precisely defined mental disorders and their treatments more recently, this too has been displaced by a model inspired by neuroscience. Description: Over the past several decades, psychiatry has undergone radical changes.

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