A Piece of My Mind: A Psychiatrist on the Couch
Full details for this title
| ISBN-13 |
9781742610740 |
| ISBN-10 |
1742610749 |
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| Stock |
Available |
| Status |
Pre-order title, release date has been delayed |
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| Publisher |
Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint |
Macmillan Australia |
| Publication Date |
9 February 2012
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| International Publication Date |
1 February 2012 |
| Publication Country |
 Australia |
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| Format |
Trade Paperback/Paperback |
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| Author(s) |
By Parker, Gordon |
| Category |
Biography & Autobiography: General
Psychiatry
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| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| NBS Text |
Autobiography: General |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
352 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 154mm
Height: 233mm
Spine: 24mm |
| Weight |
496g |
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| Dewey Code |
616.890092 |
| Catalogue Code |
238441 |
Description of this Book
Gordon Parker is known for having strong views particularly about the classification and management of mood disorders. He's been described as 'charming, witty and erudite,' sometimes arrogant and intimidating, and 'variously regarded with fear, loathing, admiration and respect'. In this autobiography he describes what brought him into a career in Psychiatry, and what he then brought to Psychiatry. He details his concerns about the current classification and management of mood disorders, and takes the medical reader into the historical circumstances that have generated a number of flawed and limited psychiatric models. In later chapters he defines the positives of a career in his field. In seeking to define what is 'good psychiatry', he reviews both the relevant literature and brings in his own personal experience of 'pattern recognition' and 'neurogenesis' arguing that ideally the practice of clinic medicine constantly sharpens clinical reasoning skills. This is a book of relevance to all health practitioners by a man known as one of the world's leading practitioners in Psychiatry today.
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Author's Bio
Gordon Parker AO as the inaugural Executive Director of the Black Dog Institute. He is currently Scentia Professor of Psychiatry at the University of new South Wales and was previously Director of the Devision of Psychiatry at Prince of Wales/Prince Henry hospitals. He has held a number of responsibilities for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, including being Editor of the journal and Chair of its Quality Assurance Committee. He is a respected clinician, an active researcher with a strong international profile and was awarded a Citation laureate in 2004 as the Australian scientist most highly cited in his field. He has led a team of clinician researchers for several decades to pursue better detection and management of mood disorders, and campaigned for greater recognition of bipolar II disorder in Australia. Parker has also worked as a creative writer - writing for The Mavis Bramston Show - a cartoonist for Oz magazine and The Bulletin, a book reviewer for major newspapers, and an ABC Science broadcaster. His first book of fiction was published in 1966 and in 2004 his play, Personality Games, was produced in Melbourne.
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