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Of Two Minds

An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry

An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry

By T.M. Luhrmann

By T.M. Luhrmann

By T.M. Luhrmann

By T.M. Luhrmann

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Category: Psychology

Category: Psychology

Paperback $17.95

Aug 14, 2001 | ISBN 9780679744931

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Apr 06, 2011 | ISBN 9780307791900

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    About Of Two Minds

    With sharp and soulful insight, T. M. Luhrmann examines the world of psychiatry, a profession which today is facing some of its greatest challenges from within and without, as it continues to offer hope to many.

    At a time when mood-altering drugs have revolutionized the treatment of the mentally ill and HMO’s are forcing caregivers to take the pharmacological route over the talking cure, Luhrmann places us at the heart of the matter and allows us to see exactly what is at stake. Based on extensive interviews with patients and doctors, as well as investigative fieldwork in residence programs, private psychiatric hospitals, and state hospitals, Luhrmann’s groundbreaking book shows us how psychiatrists develop and how the enormous ambiguities in the field affect its practitioners and patients.

    About Of Two Minds

    In this groundbreaking book, Tanya Luhrmann — among the most admired of young American anthropologists — brings her acute intelligence and her sophisticated powers of observation to bear on the world of psychiatry. On the basis of extensive interviews with patients and doctors, as well as day-to-day investigative fieldwork in residency programs, private psychiatric hospitals, and state hospitals, Luhrmann shows us how psychiatrists are trained, how they develop their particular way of seeing and listening to their patients, what makes a psychiatrist successful, and how the enormous ambiguities in the field affect its practitioners and patients.

    How do psychiatrists learn to do what they do? What is it like for psychiatrists to deal with people who are in emotional extremity? How does the choice between drug therapy and talk therapy, each of which requires very different skills, affect the way psychiatrists understand their patients?  Boldly and with sharp insight, Luhrmann takes the reader into the world of young doctors in training.

    At a time when mood-altering drugs have revolutionized the treatment of the mentally ill and HMOs are forcing caregivers to take the pharmacological route, Luhrmann places us at the heart of the struggle — do we treat people’s brains or their minds? — and allows us to see exactly what is at stake.

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    About T.M. Luhrmann

    Tanya Luhrmann is a psychological anthropologist and a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She received her education from Harvard and Cambridge universities, and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences… More about T.M. Luhrmann

    About T.M. Luhrmann

    Tanya Luhrmann is a psychological anthropologist and a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She received her education from Harvard and Cambridge universities, and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences… More about T.M. Luhrmann

    Product Details

    Category: Psychology

    Paperback | $17.95
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 14, 2001 | 352 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679744931

    Category: Psychology

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 06, 2011 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9780307791900

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    Praise

    “Clear-eyed intellectual analysis…shrewd, witty, refreshing.”–The New York Times

    “[A]stute and fascinating…. [V]ividly portrays the fierce and often unnecessary wars between those representing the interests of the mind and the brain.”–Kay Redfield Jamison

    “A more nuanced treatment of the moral and philosophical issues than any previous discussion”–The New Yorker

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