The Kitchen Shrink : A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World (Hardcover)

from knittingmomof3

From my book review blog Rundpinne... ....Thought-provoking, The Kitchen Shrink by Dora Calott Wang is a look at the changing, oftentimes for the worse, field of medicine. Wang 's memoir details how she began her career with enthusiasm and soon the realities of health care for profit had changed ...

from astults

My best friend is a psychiatrist who works with military veterans so I was interested in reading what Dr. Calott Wang thought of the current medical system in the US. The Kitchen Shrink is a memoir that reads like a string of stories to illustrate her points. The flow of the book is good but I ha...

from BlackSheepDances

At first I thought that The Kitchen Shrink was going to be some sort of self-help book on how to find happiness at home, possibly meditating while doing dishes. I even put off starting it, because I feared it would be full of psychobabble and platitudes like "bloom where you're planted". I was wr...