Women in Psychiatry : Personal Perspectives
ISBN: 9781585624089 | 158562408X
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING INC
Pub. Date: 3/1/2012
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Women entering psychiatry or other health care professions face challenges their male counterparts do not. In Women in Psychiatry: Personal Perspectives, 21 female leaders in psychiatric medicine trace the paths they followed to enter and excel in this profession. The book is a testimony to the progress women have made in the field of psychiatry, especially since the feminist movement began in the 1970s. The stories of these accomplished women are frankly presented and illustrate strategies they have used to balance their private and profession... MORE
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Foreword | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. xxi |
| The Early Years | |
| Embarking on a Career Path: Persistance, Process, and Psychiatry | p. 3 |
| A Woman of Culture and Compassion From the Carolinas | p. 13 |
| Emerging From the Shadow and Exposed to the Light | p. 31 |
| An Early-Caree... MORE | p. 43 |
| Mid-Career and Beyond: A Mosaic | |
| Farmer's Daughter Excels in Psychiatry | p. 55 |
| Finding My Way: A Nontraditional Career in Psychiatry | p. 71 |
| Getting to the Inner Circle: The Long, Hard Road | p. 89 |
| An Adventurous Journey: From the Holy City to the Windy City | p. 101 |
| Mission Driven and Road Tested: A Career Path in Psychiatry | p. 115 |
| A Community Psychiatrist Straddling Worlds and Bridging Chasms | p. 133 |
| Administration, Advocary, and Academics: One Woman's Experience | p. 147 |
| Specializing in the Wholly Impossible | p. 161 |
| The Challenges of Leadership: A Woman's Perspective | p. 177 |
| Having the Courage and Conviction to Succeed | p. 189 |
| Army Psychiatrist | p. 207 |
| A Serendipitous Career: From Cowboy to Out Lesbian Faculty Psychiatrist | p. 215 |
| Another Immigrant's Tale: So Near and Yet So Far | p. 225 |
| Receiving Effective Support While Making Culture and Language Changes | p. 237 |
| Unexpected Adventures Behind the Walls | p. 249 |
| My Partly Planned Journey: What Has Worked for Me | p. 267 |
| Centering | p. 281 |
| Index | p. 303 |
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Donna M. Norris, M.D., is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Geetha Jayaram, M.D., M.B.A, is Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Health Policy Management, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Annelee B. Primm, M.D., M.P.H., is Deputy Medical Director and Director, Office of Minority/National Affairs, American Psychiatric Association, Arlington, Virginia.
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