Brooklyn Zoo : The Education of a Psychotherapist

from acornell

This is the second ER book I have been asked to review written about a NYC mental hospital. I think I rolled my eyes a bit when I got it in the mail. This one took place in a less toni hospital in the Brooklyn that was over taxed, under staffed, and generally scruffy. The writer, a psychology int...

from hammockqueen

Darcy did a good job of telling about her training. It sounded (not fun) and also not very informative for her. She obviously learned but only because of her determination to do so. It's easy to see the revolving door of certain health care issues and yet I wonder, what are the choices? The menta...

from bobbieharv

To me, this memoir was like a travelogue: first we did this, then we did that, then there was that ... We went from one patient to the next, descriptively but not reflectively. Then, all of a sudden on page 228: "Vera and I had some things in common, personality-wise. My masochistic defenses - su...

from cindyst2000

This was an interesting book for the insight it gave into a psychotherapist's training in a mental hospital. The fact that reflected primarily the author's impressions and opinions was both a strength and a weakness. It was a strength because providing her personal feelings and responses made it ...

from Jackie.the.Librarian

When I read the description of this book, I had high hopes. I was thinking it would be something like Julie Holland's Weekends at Bellevue (2009). However, this book was less about the patients and more about the patience (or lack thereof) of the author in her training to become a psychotherapist...