The Cockroach CatcherA fictional Child Psychiatrist's personal view of the human psyche and of the world at large. Cases range from simple childhood toilet and sleep problems to anorexia nervosa, abuse and psychosis and are seen through this specialist's eyes. There are also cases of "entrepreneurs" in the making, cases of family tragedy and cases that turn out not to be psychiatric at all. The material should be of interest to health care practitioners and the general public. Anybody can read The Cockroach Catcher. They do not have to be in the medical profession. |
Contents
Seven Minute Cure | 1 |
SARS Freedom and Knowledge | 14 |
Barbados and Retirement | 18 |
The Cockroach Catcher | 21 |
The Village | 31 |
Medical School The Beginning | 44 |
Morrison Hall | 51 |
Medical School The Clinical Years | 58 |
Sadness | 222 |
Airline boy | 231 |
The Power of Prayers | 248 |
Religious Fanaticism | 264 |
Adapting To Guidelines | 275 |
Let Her Die | 285 |
The Peril of Diagnosis | 290 |
Failure? | 304 |
After the Examinations | 66 |
First Encounter | 73 |
Faking is Not All Bad | 86 |
Wrong Foot | 92 |
Hiccup Boy | 97 |
Who Are You? | 101 |
Miracles | 110 |
Autism and Entrenchment | 119 |
Switch Off | 127 |
Bad Mad or Sad | 139 |
Who Is The Real Patient? | 143 |
Dont You Dare | 156 |
Autoeroticism | 159 |
Family Tragedy | 171 |
Bullying | 179 |
Ping Pong | 194 |
Crying and Sleep | 208 |
Forgiveness | 215 |
Like Father Like Son | 315 |
Entrepreneur | 322 |
Good Intentions | 329 |
Adoption | 337 |
Three Different Mothers | 342 |
It May Not Be All In The Mind | 353 |
Elective Mute | 362 |
What If | 371 |
A New Era | 375 |
Madness and Ethnicity | 381 |
Born Good? | 396 |
Yellow Card | 402 |
Going To The Moon | 407 |
The Last Cook | 423 |
Definitely Not All In The Mind | 429 |
Trauma and Human Resilience | 439 |
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