The book examines the implications of shorter stays for the practice of inpatient psychotherapy. The contributors describe techniques that inpatient psychotherapists can use to remain therapeutically effective despite increased pressure from managed care companies and the threat of malpractice suits.
About the Author :
Ellen Leibenluft, M.D., is Medical Officer in the Clinical Psychobiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.
Allen Tasman, M.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky.
Stephen A. Green, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC.
Review :
Less Time to Do More is a telling review of current approaches to inpatient psychiatry; one in which insurers ask us to treat patients as objects to be cleverly and quickly maneuvered into conforming behavior and to overlook the possibility that they may be interesting persons overwhelmed by futile attempts to deal with conflicts beyond their abilities to manage.
The book has been well-edited so that there is little redundancy across chapters. Both the novice clinician and the experienced hospital psychiatrist will find a good deal of clinical wisdom on the pages of this fine new volume, and it will serve equally well as a text for residents assigned to inpatient rotations and as a reference book for the busy inpatient clinician.
This is a quality book, useful for psychotherapeutically disciplined trainees as an overview of philosophy and techniques that offer enhanced treatment effectiveness.
