Doctors as patients

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Doctors, as strong, clever, resourceful professionals, are heir to human frailty and illness, like anyone else. This book is about diagnosable, label-able mental illness such as eating disorders, affective disorders and, sometimes, psychosis. More than that, it is a book about doctors, many fully-functioning, practising doctors, who suffer from these illnesses, and the unique insights and problems that arise when the doctor is the patient, especially when questions of insight and judgement are …

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Title Statements

Full title :Doctors as patients / edited by Petre Jones ; foreword by Michael Shooter.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):CRC Press
Place of Publication:Place of publication not identified
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (214 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315375977, 1315375974, 9781498793711, 1498793711, 9781315325569, 131532556X, 9781315344553, 1315344556
DOI:10.1201/9781315375977
oclc:on1301430990
LC Classification:R727.9
Dewey Decimal:610.69

Overview of doctors with mental illness. Personal stories. Themes from the stories. Treatment issues. Discrimination. Reflection on health and illness. Ongoing support and relapse prevention.

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