Author: Darcy Lockman
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 2012-07-17
Book Size: 27.99 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Brooklyn Zoo

by Darcy Lockman, Brooklyn Zoo Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Brooklyn Zoo book, A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist’s clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan’s classic Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Seven years after her college graduation, Darcy Lockman abandoned a career in magazine journalism to become a psychologist. After four years in classrooms, she spent her final training year at the Kings County Hospital, an aging public institution on the outskirts of Brooklyn. When she started, little did she know that the hospital’s behavioral health department—the infamous G Building, where the Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz and the rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard once resided—was on the cusp of its darkest era yet, one that culminated in the death of a patient in a psychiatric emergency room described by the New York Post as a “Dickensian nightmare.” Brooklyn Zoo unfolds amid the constant drama and disorder of the G Building. Lockman rotates through four departments, each of which presents new challenges and haunting cases. She works with forensic psychologists to evaluate offenders for fitness to stand trial—almost all of them with pathos-filled histories and little hope of rehabilitation. The thorny politics of the psych ER compound her anxiety about working with its volatile patients, but under the wing of a charismatic if brusque mentor she gains a deeper insight into her new profession as well as into her own strengths and limitations. As she moves to the inpatient ward and then psychiatric consultation liaison, Lockman’s overstretched supervisors and the institutional preference for pills over therapy are persistent obstacles. But they eventually present a young clinician with the opportunity to reexamine everything she believes and to come out stronger on the other side. Lockman’s frank portrayal of her fledgling role in a warped system is a professional coming-of-age story that will resonate with anyone who has fought to develop career mastery in a demanding environment. A stark portrait of the struggling public mental-health-care system, Brooklyn Zoo is also an homage to the doctors who remain committed to their patients in spite of institutional failures and to the patients who strive to get better with their help. And it is an inspiring first-hand account by a narrator who triumphs over self-doubt to believe in the rightness and efficacy of her chosen profession.

Author: Peter Toohey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 2020-06-02
Book Size: 38.49 MB
Book Format: PDF, Docs
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Hold On

by Peter Toohey, Hold On Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Hold On book, What do you do when you're not asleep and when you're not eating? You're most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by your doctor. Hold On is less about how to manage all that "staying where one is until a particular time or event" (OED) than it is about describing how we experience waiting. Waiting can embrace things like hesitation and curiosity, dithering and procrastination, hunting and being hunted, fearing and being feared, dread and illness, courting and parenting, anticipation and excitement, curiosity, listening to and even performing music, being religious, being happy or unhappy, being bored and being boring. They're all explored here. Waiting is also characterized by brain chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine. They can radically alter the way we register the passing of time. Waiting is also the experience that may characterize most interpersonal relations--mismanage it at your own risk. Hold On contains advice on how to cope with waiting-how to live better-but its main aim is to show how important the experience of waiting is, in popular and highbrow culture, and, sometimes, in history. Detouring into psychology, neurology, ethology, philosophy, film, literature, and especially art, Peter Toohey's illuminates in unexpected ways one of the most common of human experiences. After reading his book, you'll never wait the same way again.

Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Best American Series (R)
Release Date: 2019-10
Book Size: 20.91 MB
Book Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Best American Short Stories 2019

by Anthony Doerr, The Best American Short Stories 2019 Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Best American Short Stories 2019 book, #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Author: Klaus Wilhelm Platz
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date: 2006
Book Size: 71.91 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Diplomats
Languages : de
Pages : 416
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Eine Mittelm Ssige Karriere

by Klaus Wilhelm Platz, Eine Mittelm Ssige Karriere Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Eine Mittelm Ssige Karriere book,

Author: Marian Hamilton
Publisher:
Release Date: 1991
Book Size: 45.65 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Best Things In New York Are Free

by Marian Hamilton, The Best Things In New York Are Free Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Best Things In New York Are Free book, Lists over 1,000 free attractions and activities in New York City, including museums, art galleries, theater and dance, concerts, movies, parks, zoos, historical houses, and more.

Author: Lee Foster Hartman
Publisher:
Release Date: 1991
Book Size: 32.48 MB
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Harper S Magazine

by Lee Foster Hartman, Harper S Magazine Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Harper S Magazine book,

Author: Darnisha King
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date: 2016-07-14
Book Size: 21.89 MB
Book Format: PDF, Kindle
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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A Time To Love A Time To Kill

by Darnisha King, A Time To Love A Time To Kill Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download A Time To Love A Time To Kill book, It was January 13 when I killed my boyfriend. We had been together for 6 years, 11 months, and 5 days. I loved the shit out of him. I mean, I cleaned his dirty drawers and funky socks. I took two diseases from him, I've walked in on him cheating so many times and I accepted the twins he had with someone else; but I would never accept this man putting his hands on me again. A Time to Love & A Time to Kill is The tale of three young friends Brooklyn, Renea and Kenya who set out to love their boyfriends, Zoo, Darius and Tonio. The guys also happen to be cousins. Nothing is fair in love and war - so things don't always go as planned. If things weren't crazy enough with the fighting, sexually transmitted diseases and illegitimate babies; then murder happens. Will everyone be able to maintain with the craziness that could potentially tear the friendships apart? One things for sure, with this crew - there is 'A Time to Love & A Time to Kill!'

Author: New York Fire Dept. Relief Fund
Publisher:
Release Date: 1921
Book Size: 13.46 MB
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Annual Report

by New York Fire Dept. Relief Fund, Annual Report Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Annual Report book,

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Release Date: 1964
Book Size: 75.45 MB
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Statistical Guide For New York City

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Author: New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Commerce and Industrial Development
Publisher:
Release Date: 1965
Book Size: 57.32 MB
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Statistical Guide For New York City

by New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Commerce and Industrial Development, Statistical Guide For New York City Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Statistical Guide For New York City book,

Author: New York (N.Y.)
Publisher:
Release Date: 1906
Book Size: 78.71 MB
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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The City Record

by New York (N.Y.), The City Record Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The City Record book,

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Release Date: 1998
Book Size: 65.89 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Commercial art
Languages : en
Pages :
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Graphic Design Usa

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