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Rethinks the status of bodies in a field that is meant to heal the mind and how institutions can shape the drama of psychiatric education.
The Education of a Psychiatrist offers a fresh engagement with the challenges of learning a profession and building a practice in hospital settings often resistant to care. With astute analysis of works by both clinicians and critics of the field, such as Oliver Sacks and Michel Foucault, Sheila Harms reflects on the role of myths of endurance in education and the more promising possibilities of an ethical turn toward personal transformation, precisely as an educator. Working across the humanities and medical education and drawing on her own experiences in Canada and Uganda, Harms shows why relations of concern, vulnerability, and dependency must become urgent grounds for psychiatric practice.
"A much-needed interrogation of the biological parameters imposed on knowledge about patient care. Attending to the transferences that take place in relations of care, Harms articulates new ways to make learning possible within psychiatry and mental health services. The Education of a Psychiatrist raises questions for education in general and medical education in particular, showing that how we learn can become a matter of life and death, for patients most of all but also, and crucially for the field of psychiatry, careers. This intervention is overdue." — A. C. Facundo, author of Oscillations of Literary Theory: The Paranoid Imperative and Queer Reparative
"Sheila Harms offers us a uniquely hermeneutic and textured narrative of her own personal and professional transformations in becoming a psychiatrist, unfolding awkward moments of discomfort and the torsions of being educated by vulnerabilities. Harms does not shy away from challenging and sometimes viscerally painful encounters, exposing her own humanity and compassion by pressing herself firmly onto the page." — Allan Donsky, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary
Acknowledgments
Prelude: On Making Psychiatry an Educational Problem
1. Brittle Education
2. Riding Pillion with Oliver Sacks
3. A Psychiatrist's Body
4. Hospital People
5. Clinical Encounters of a Close Kind
6. Beyond the Empirical Divide: A Way Out for New Education
References
Index