The couch, the clinic, and the scanner: stories from three revolutionary eras of the mind

Preface

Part 1. The Couch, 1980-1994: The work: learning to do psychoanalytic psychotherapy, 1980-1984

Tigers in the night: a therapists own therapy, 1981-1988

The enchanted garden: psychoanalysis in the psychiatry marketplace, 1985

Dreams on the insane help greatly in their cure: demolition of the psychoanalytic mothership, 1994

Part 2. The Clinic, 1985-2000: Treating the city: DSM psychiatry in the real world of the city hospital, 1989

Reinventing the egg: translating the DSM across cultures and languages, 1990-1994

The red box: digging deep into the DSM, late 1990s

Call: testing the DSM off hours, 1998

Less with less: stripping the DSM to the essentials or beyond, 1998-2000

Part 3. The Scanner, 2000-2023: Flights into health: learned safety and the new neuropsychiatry, 2000-2007

Curing families: genes, circuits, and the frontiers of treatment, 2005-2009

Off-label: revisioning drugs in the age of neuroscience, 1997-2023

Mind wandering, then and now: new views over three eras, 2005-2023

Floating brains and magic mushrooms: ancient psychedelics test the progress of psychiatry, 2019 to today

Afterword

References

Index