The Man With A Microphone In His Ear

By Arthur Smukler MD

The Man with a Microphone in his Ear

It is July 1969 at PGH (Philadelphia General Hospital), an ancient psychiatric fortress. Enter the world of psychiatry through the eyes of a 1st year psychiatric resident on his first day of training on the locked inpatient unit.

A psychotic, paranoid man smashes a piano stool, and using the legs as bludgeoning propellers, tries to kill everyone in his path. He is eventually controlled and placed in leather restraints.

The next day, this clueless resident is assigned to treat, The Man with a Microphone in his Ear. Learning about Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorders and Paranoid States is the easy part. Overcoming his own fear and how to talk to a psychotic person is something that he’ll never forget and will shape his entire psychiatric career.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arthur Smukler MD
• Release date: Mar 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476313368

Arthur Smukler MD

Is it possible to make the unconscious, conscious? To take a trip into the human mind? Of course! The trip begins with Chasing Backwards, a psychological murder mystery, and continues with The Man With A Microphone In His Ear, Skin Dance, a mystery, and my blog, Inside the Mind of a Psychiatrist. All books are available as ebooks and paperbacks. You can find them at amazon.com/author/arthursmukler or http://artsmuklermd.com So who is Art Smukler and why should you care? Enter Inside the Mind of a Psychiatrist and find out... http://artsmuklermd.com Dr. Smukler has won the prestigious Golden Ear Award for excellence in teaching at Harbor-UCLA Medical center and excellence in writing fiction at The Santa Barbara Writers Conference.

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