The Psychiatric Interview
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Book Overview
This is a book for all those working in the field of psychiatric disorder. It will be invaluable to medical students and doctors training in general practice, emergency medicine and psychiatry. At a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:B0006ATWQC
ISBN13:9780393010596
Release Date:January 1954
Publisher:W. W. Norton
Length:246 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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Great Read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This is a wonderful book that every psychologist should read. All of the topics that Sullivan discusses still apply to psychology today. This book gave me a great deal of insight about how to approach the interview and my patients. It was recommended to me by one of my mentors and I am glad he did.
A Classic that is Better than Most Modern Works
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Harry Stack Sullivan's work deserves to be read widely, and is an extremely important antidote to the pharmaceutical-crazy approaches to mental health that are so dominant in the modern world. This book can teach the reader a great deal about how to deal with the dynamics of a therapeutic interview--and more importantly how to understand conversations in general! This approach to understanding communication fits well with Bateson's excellent analyses of the power-dynamics of conversations, and with Laing's and Minuchin's analyses of what happens in familial communications. I think this book should be a MUST-READ before any M.D. or therapist enters the interview room. Along with offering important practical guidance, it can help alert you-as-therapist to ways in which your own issues are inappropriately undermining the therapeutic exchange.
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