OF TWO MINDS
The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry
T. M. Luhrmann
Alfred A. Knopf, 2000
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Readers of this book will understand the process of the training and socialization of psychiatrists. They will learn an anthropological perspective on the current tension in psychiatry between biological and environmental factors.
This book is an anthropological study of the training of psychiatrists. On the basis of interviews with patients and physicians, as well as day-to-day investigative fieldwork in residency programs, private psychiatric hospitals, and state hospitals, Luhrmann shows how psychiatrists are trained, how they develop their particular way of seeing and listening to patients, what makes a psychiatrist successful, and how the enormous ambiguities in the field affect its practitioners and patients. In this time when medications have revolutionized treatment and managed care is forcing caregivers into the pharmacological route, Luhrmann focuses on the psychiatrists' struggle over whether to treat brains or minds.
Tanya M. Luhrmann, Ph.D., is Max Palevsky Professor, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago. She is the author of Persuasions of the Witch's Craft and The Good Parsi.
10 CE Credits; 293 pages
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