Ebook {Epub PDF} Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa by Paul R. Linde

Linde's Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa is this new century's version of the earlier book. The author recounts 11 vignettes of patients seen at a psychiatric hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe. The hospital is understaffed and undersupplied. The staff labors under difficult conditions/5(13). OF SPIRITS AND MADNESS: An American Psychiatrist in Africa Paul R. Linde, Author. McGraw-Hill $ (p) ISBN As Africa's AIDS crisis worsens, expect Linde to become a.  · Linde is a psychiatrist whose wife is a pediatrician. It was her dream to work in Africa that brought him to the experience that is the subject of this memoir. Originally intending to spend his Africa years writing, Linde happened into a job as a staff psychiatrist /5(13).

A memoir about an American psychiatrist who takes a year out of his career working in a busy AE in San Fransisco to work in a disadvantaged Zimbabwe hospital. Linde focuses each chapter on a different patient he encountered and shows what a strong effect culture plays in the presentation and treatment of patients. Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa by Paul R. Linde; New York, McGraw-Hill, , pages, $ Jefrey Stovall, M.D. ith Of Spirits and Madness, Dr. Linde has wñtten a provoca- live and compelling account of his year as a psychiatrist at the psychiatric unit of Harare Central Hospital in Zimbabwe. Danger to Self On the Front Line with an Er Psychiatrist by Paul Linde available in Trade Paperback on www.doorway.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical.

OF SPIRITS AND MADNESS: An American Psychiatrist in Africa Paul R. Linde, Author. McGraw-Hill $ (p) ISBN As Africa's AIDS crisis worsens, expect Linde to become a. Linde is a psychiatrist whose wife is a pediatrician. It was her dream to work in Africa that brought him to the experience that is the subject of this memoir. Originally intending to spend his Africa years writing, Linde happened into a job as a staff psychiatrist in a government hospital for the mentally ill. In , Paul R. Linde, MD, went touring with his pediatrician wife "just going along for the ride." Their journey eventually led him to the Harare Psychiatric Unit, Harare Central Hospital in Zimbabwe, one of Africa's poorest and most troubled countries. He was the only American psychiatrist at the hospital.