Book contents
- An Improbable Psychiatrist
- Reviews
- An Improbable Psychiatrist
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 A Medical Student
- Chapter 2 A Junior Doctor
- Chapter 3 A GP Trainee and a Patient
- Chapter 4 Back to Edinburgh
- Chapter 5 A Baby
- Chapter 6 Admissions: the Revolving Door
- Chapter 7 Recovery?
- Chapter 8 Into the Fray
- Chapter 9 A Psychiatric Trainee
- Chapter 10 Lucy
- Chapter 11 Back from the Edge
- Chapter 12 The Grey Walls
- Chapter 13 A Real Psychiatrist
- Chapter 14 Substances
- Chapter 15 The Unexpected
- Chapter 16 Going Too Far?
- Chapter 17 Moods and Medicine
- Afterword
- Afterword
- Glossary
- Resources
- Bibliography
Chapter 4 - Back to Edinburgh
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2024
- An Improbable Psychiatrist
- Reviews
- An Improbable Psychiatrist
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 A Medical Student
- Chapter 2 A Junior Doctor
- Chapter 3 A GP Trainee and a Patient
- Chapter 4 Back to Edinburgh
- Chapter 5 A Baby
- Chapter 6 Admissions: the Revolving Door
- Chapter 7 Recovery?
- Chapter 8 Into the Fray
- Chapter 9 A Psychiatric Trainee
- Chapter 10 Lucy
- Chapter 11 Back from the Edge
- Chapter 12 The Grey Walls
- Chapter 13 A Real Psychiatrist
- Chapter 14 Substances
- Chapter 15 The Unexpected
- Chapter 16 Going Too Far?
- Chapter 17 Moods and Medicine
- Afterword
- Afterword
- Glossary
- Resources
- Bibliography
Summary
Returned to Edinburgh five months pregnant, admitted immediately to local psychiatric hospital with psychotic depression. Treated with medication (antidepressants and antipsychotics) and ECT for the first. Poor with medication and relapse.
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- An Improbable Psychiatrist , pp. 38 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024