The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner is an insightful first-person account of psychiatry¿s evolution. In vivid stories and essays, David Hellerstein explores the lived experience of psychiatric work and the daunting challenges of healing the mind amid ever-changing theoretical models.

PrefacePart I. The Couch, 1980¿19941. The Work: Learning to Do Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 1980¿1984 2. Tigers in the Night: A Therapist¿s Own Therapy, 1981¿19883. The Enchanted Garden: Psychoanalysis in the Psychiatry Marketplace, 19854. Dreams of the Insane Help Greatly in Their Cure: Demolition of the Psychoanalytic Mothership, 1994Part II. The Clinic, 1985¿20005. Treating the City: DSM Psychiatry in the Real World of the City Hospital, 19896. Reinventing the Egg: Translating the DSM Across Cultures and Languages, 1990¿19947. The Red Box: Digging Deep Into the DSM, Late 1990s8. Call: Testing the DSM Off Hours, 19989. Less with Less: Stripping the DSM to the Essentials or Beyond, 1998¿2000Part III. The Scanner, 1997¿202310. Flights Into Health: Learned Safety and the New Neuropsychiatry, 2000¿200711. Curing Families: Genes, Circuits, and the Frontiers of Treatment, 2005¿200912. Off Label: Revisioning Drugs in the Age of Neuroscience, 1997¿202313. Mind Wandering, Then and Now: New Views Over Three Eras, 2005¿202314. Floating Brains and Magic Mushrooms: Ancient Psychedelics Test the Progress of Psychiatry, 2019 to TodayAfterwordReferencesIndex