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   Psychiatrists are like lawyers, everyone hates them... until you   
   actually have a dire need for one.   
      
   Phin   
      
   On 13 Dec 2006 15:14:09 -0800, "Barbara Schwarz"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Caswell wrote:   
   >> It seems the reason there are "fewer and fewer psychs" pursuing careers in   
   >> community hospitals is that a) there are fewer and fewer psychs, and b) no   
   one   
   >> likes them anyway!   
   >>   
   >> Psychiatrists and Community Mental Health: Current Issues and Trends   
   >> David S. Ribner A.C.S.W.1   
   >> 1 Mapleton Service South Beach Psychiatric Center Brooklyn, New York   
   >>   
   >> Fewer and fewer psychiatrists seem interested in pursuing a career in   
   community   
   >> mental health. The author examines some of the possible reasons for the   
   lack of   
   >> interest, such as role diffusion and the jealousy and hostility of   
   >> nonpsychiatric mental health staff. He discusses the shift in community   
   >> treatment approaches toward teamwork and increased duties for the other   
   mental   
   >> health professionals, and examines the consequences of these changes. The   
   author   
   >> also discusses several different philosophies of community psychiatry,   
   focusing   
   >> on the place of the medical model. Finally, he offers suggestions for   
   >> encouraging more psychiatrists to work in the community and for carving out   
   a   
   >> greater role for community psychiatry in mental health programs.   
   >   
   >P$ychs have a real bad reputation.  I think those who still join are   
   >those who mainly try to heal or drug themselves. This is why most   
   >p$ychs become p$ychs anyway, either to control others or to heal their   
   >own emotional problems or perhaps both.   
   >   
   >Why would somebody want to become a p$ych with a bad reputation when   
   >he/she can be  an architect with a good reputation?   
   >   
   >   
   >Barbara Schwarz  (Looking for the original Mark [Marty] Rathbun. No   
   >impostor, please!)   
      
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