Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric UnitThe work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as "medicine under siege." Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health workers to deal with the dilemmas they face every day. |
Contents
We Discharge in Ten Days | 34 |
The Game of Hot Shit | 55 |
History Modifies Our Fantasies | 81 |
Like Migrating Birds | 117 |
It Is Impossible To Be Good | 142 |
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