The Dinosaur Man: Tales of Madness and Enchantment from the Back Ward
The Dinosaur Man fuses Susan Baur's clinical observations with a deep affection for her patients and a forthright admiration of their courage and wit. She uncovers cunning metaphorical truths in the histories sch8izophrenics create for themselves, and demonstrates that the ways and reasons they...
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The Dinosaur Man fuses Susan Baur's clinical observations with a deep affection for her patients and a forthright admiration of their courage and wit. She uncovers cunning metaphorical truths in the histories sch8izophrenics create for themselves, and demonstrates that the ways and reasons they tell their stories inextricably link them to us all.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060981044 (0060981040)
Publish date: July 28th 1992
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Dr. Baur talks about her time working with severely delusional patients in a psychiatric ward, but this isn't a book for mere gawkers of human experience. Baur is relentlessly compassionate, not treating to teach patients how to pass in society, but getting right in there with them and working in th...
Dr. Baur talks about her time working with severely delusional patients in a psychiatric ward, but this isn't a book for mere gawkers of human experience. Baur is relentlessly compassionate, not treating to teach patients how to pass in society, but getting right in there with them and working in th...
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