From Skepticism to Competence
How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy
By: Mariana Craciun
Hardcover | 18 June 2024 | Edition Number 1
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While many medical professionals can physically examine the body to identify and understand its troubles-a cardiologist can take a scan of the heart, an endocrinologist can measure hormone levels, an oncologist can locate a tumor-psychiatrists have a much harder time unlocking the inner workings of the brain or its metaphysical counterpart, the mind.
In From Skepticism to Competence, sociologist Mariana Craciun delves into the radical uncertainty of psychiatric work by following medical residents in the field as they learn about psychotherapeutic methods. Most are skeptical at the start. While they are well equipped to treat brain diseases through prescription drugs, they must set their expectations aside and learn how to navigate their patients' minds. Their instructors, experienced psychotherapists, help the budding psychiatrists navigate this new professional terrain by revealing the inner workings of talk and behavioral interventions and stressing their utility in a world dominated by pharmaceutical treatments. In the process, the residents examine their own doctoring assumptions and develop new competencies in psychotherapy. Exploring the world of contemporary psychiatric training, Craciun illuminates novice physicians' struggles to understand the nature and meaning of mental illness and, with it, their own growing medical expertise.
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"Mariana Craciun's perceptive ethnography takes us inside psychiatric residency to explore the challenging journey of those learning how to treat mental illness. With vivid observations, Craciun brings the relational dimensions of their training to life, tracing the experience of residents as they watch, listen and practice psychotherapy within a community of instructors and colleagues. She not only offers fascinating details of how residents' skepticism and doubt turn into expanded professional knowledge and identity, but we also see how psychoanalytic instructors work to broaden the legitimate approaches to psychiatry. As a result, From Skepticism to Competence is both a crucial contribution to our understanding of medical socialization and to the sociology of occupations and work." -- Beth A. Bechky, University of California, Davis
ISBN: 9780226833897
ISBN-10: 0226833895
Series: Ethnographic Encounters and Discoveries
Published: 18th June 2024
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 252
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: US
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03
Weight (kg): 0.54
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