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Asylum
A Mid-Century Madhouse and Its Lessons about Our Mentally Ill Today
 Enoch Callaway M.D.

0-275-99704-9/978-0-275-99704-5

Description
An intimate look at the patients, professionals, and practices at the nation's first state insane asylum.

Reviews:
-This book is a great read, and not only for mental health professionals. It also has relevance for lawyers, lawmakers, civil planners, and administrators....Asylum: A Mid-Century Madhouse and Its Lessons About Our Mentally Ill Today consists mostly of Dr. Callaway's vivid memoirs: a more or less sequential cornucopia of many vignettes in short chapters only 2 or 3 pages long that are funny, poignant, intensley personal, and sometimes quite sharp-edged but never frivolous or lacking in common-sense perspective. —Journal of the American Medical Association
-Enoch Callaway has written an entertaining, idiosyncratic story of Worcester State Hospital....This is a personal history, and an opinionated one, giving it an almost conversational tone. He largely shuns jargon, and writes clearly and with humor. —Metapsychology Online
-Callaway looks back at those early years of training with fondness, humor, and wisdom. He asks the reader to pull up a chair, sit down, and listen to his recollections about the psychiatry of 60 years ago, see how it has evolved, and note his concerns about psychiatry today. His is a genial, generous memoir, amply illustrated with instructive anecdotes of patients and professionals who visited the hospital....As a memoir, it charmingly has much to teach the student and professional. —PsycCritiques
About the Author
Enoch Callaway, M.D., is a semi-retired Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. A Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he continues seeing patients via contract work with companies supplying physicians to fill roles when regular doctors have planned absences. Callaway earned his medical degree at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed training, residencies and a fellowship at Emory University Grady Hospital, Worcester State Hospital, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and the Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute.
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