Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist

by Paul R. Linde

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520269837
• ISBN13: 9780520269835
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"