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Book Review: The Good Listener: Helen Bamber, A Life Against Cruelty

Book Review: The Good Listener: Helen Bamber, A Life Against Cruelty 250 Affilia Summer 2001 experience in training and practice and how they are molded by their professors and duties. Each of the two psychiatric specialties has its own strengths in contributing to healing and its own limitations. All studies and statistical summaries concur that the best prognosis for a patient’s recovery depends on using the two disciplines in con- cert. However, managed care tends to emphasize short-term cost analyses and has often failed to consider the long-term economies inherent in stabilizing a patient slowly so that repeated crises and hospitalizations are avoided. Of major concern to Luhrmann is the moral and cultural impact of each psychiatric specialty. Psychodynamic psycho- therapy assumes that individuals create many of the conditions of their lives through their own actions and attitudes. Thus, they are responsible, at least in part, for their difficulties and for finding solutions to them. This is a point of view that encour- ages people to treat others with respect, support, and helpful- ness. In contrast, biomedical psychiatry looks to physical or chemical malfunction as the source of painful and destructive feelings and behavior. Agreeing with this explanation encour- ages one to regard “disturbed” individuals as helpless to improve their http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

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0886-1099
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1552-3020
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10.1177/088610990101600215
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Abstract

250 Affilia Summer 2001 experience in training and practice and how they are molded by their professors and duties. Each of the two psychiatric specialties has its own strengths in contributing to healing and its own limitations. All studies and statistical summaries concur that the best prognosis for a patient’s recovery depends on using the two disciplines in con- cert. However, managed care tends to emphasize short-term cost analyses and has often failed to consider the long-term economies inherent in stabilizing a patient slowly so that repeated crises and hospitalizations are avoided. Of major concern to Luhrmann is the moral and cultural impact of each psychiatric specialty. Psychodynamic psycho- therapy assumes that individuals create many of the conditions of their lives through their own actions and attitudes. Thus, they are responsible, at least in part, for their difficulties and for finding solutions to them. This is a point of view that encour- ages people to treat others with respect, support, and helpful- ness. In contrast, biomedical psychiatry looks to physical or chemical malfunction as the source of painful and destructive feelings and behavior. Agreeing with this explanation encour- ages one to regard “disturbed” individuals as helpless to improve their

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Affilia: Journal of Women and Social WorkSAGE

Published: May 1, 2001

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