{"product_id":"surrogate-how-a-woman-named-sandra-made-me-a-mother-9781949093575","title":"Surrogate: How a Woman Named Sandra Made Me a Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003eChance can change a life, and it certainly changed mine. As a third-year undergraduate at Harvard, I overheard a conversation about a college volunteer program in the local state mental hospital, and for the next two years I volunteered on the back wards of the hospital. Each week, I would talk with Mary, a gray-haired, tired woman who had been sitting quietly in a corner for three years. Over the academic year that we talked, she regained enough function to leave the hospital, and I believe our conversations were part of what made that happen. My experience with Mary would prove to change the course of my life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from college, I went on to graduate study in academic psychology, but I changed direction as I realized how much I missed the experience with Mary and other patients. I went on to medical school and from there to psychiatry. Now, more than fifty years later, I have two stories to tell: my own, and how psychiatry changed during my working lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI spent my career as an academic psychiatrist working in a public hospital, where I taught young physicians and other trainees to take care of sick, poor people while also caring for patients myself. I loved my work; but at the same time, I saw how psychiatry was changing, and I was troubled by what I saw. When I trained in the 1960s, psychiatrists cared for patients as individuals. Now, they push pills and promise more than they can deliver. In this book, I describe that change and I offer a proposal for a different and better psychiatry-one that returns psychiatry to its roots and is more helpful to patients and more fulfilling for psychiatrists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFund, Karen L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Karen L. Fund (1947-2012) was the Publisher and a founder of L.A. Style, a lifestyle and fashion magazine. She was also Associate Publisher of The L.A. Weekly, subsequently serving as Chairperson of its Board of Directors. After a career in rock music and advertising, she emerged as a major figure in print media in Los Angeles. Married to psychoanalyst David James Fisher for thirty-one years before her untimely death, Karen Fund was the loving and devoted mother of Ben Fisher and Chloe Fisher.","brand":"Ipbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50444398887186,"sku":"9781949093575","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4c7f95d4-7855-453b-b3f3-96b9beb62bbd.jpg?v=1729682102","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/surrogate-how-a-woman-named-sandra-made-me-a-mother-9781949093575","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}