The Education of a Psychiatrist

Human Encounters in the Field of Vulnerability

Sheila Harms (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2026
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
9798855803587 (ISBN)

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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.

Sheila Harms is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and practices as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at McMaster Children's Hospital.

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

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series, Transforming Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Studies in Education
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9798855803587 / 9798855803587
Zustand	Neuware