1st Edition
Letters From the Clinic Letter Writing in Clinical Practice for Mental Health Professionals
By Derek Steinberg
Copyright 2000
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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In every field of therapeutic practice a significant amount of time is spent writing letters about and to patients. In Letters From the Clinic Derek Steinberg applies detailed literary and psychological analysis to over 40 letters, highlighting why certain words or phrases were used, how they could have been put better, and builds around them principles and theoretical positions based on... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 later.Letters; Chapter 3 Beginnings; Chapter 4 Writing for Referrer and Patient; Chapter 5 Work in Progress I; Chapter 6 Work in Progress II; Chapter 7 Some Special Situations; Chapter 8 Endings; Chapter 9 What Recipients Think of Letters; Chapter 10 Conclusions;
Biography
Derek Steinberg is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He trained in Oxford, at the Maudsley and at the Tavistock Institute in London. He worked at the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals where he directed the Adolescent Unit for twenty years before going on to Ticehurst House Hospital in Sussex. He has published six books and taught widely in the UK and abroad, and has a special interest in the relationships between literature and the arts and psychiatry.
