Product Description: This book is a study of schizophrenia in a modern psychiatric hospital. Its purpose is to develop a contextual understanding of schizophrenia by studying the clinical setting in which this disorder is experienced, diagnosed and treated, and it arises from an anthropological investigation of the day-to-day work of clinical staff...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Describes how commonly accepted hospital procedures and structures support potentially injurious forms of countertransference enactment. Because they help to disguise, ward off, or discharge tensions, within the staff, countertransference structures play a crucial role in hospitals' equilibrium...read more