The Locked Ward
Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly
An extraordinary account of a nurse's life behind the locked doors of a secure psychiatric ward.Dennis O'Donnell started work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of a large hospital in Scotland in 2000. In his daily life he encountered fear, violence and despair but also a considerable amount of care and compassion. Recounting the stories of the patients he worked with, and those of his colleagues on the ward, he examines major mental health conditions, methods of treatment - medication, how religion, sex, wealth, health and drugs can bear influence on mental health, the prevailing attitudes to psychiatric illness, the author…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4481-3016-0
- EAN: 9781448130160
- Produktnummer: 14345612
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 748 KB
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