Weekends at Bellevue by Julie Holland was an entertaining audiobook. I can't say it was profound to me in any way, or that it will stick with me. However, it fulfilled the purpose I chose it for, which was purely to provide entertainment.Holland's memoir is about both her experiences as a psychiatri...
A big part of the problem for this memoir (not primarily about the people who transit through Bellevue's Psych ER, but about the writer's personal development) is her use of the present tense. Consider this statement:"I think of my job as a psychiatrist as being, in many ways, a seduction.... I use ...