Crazy all the time

Crazy All the Time is the story of psychotherapy in the real world. Dr. Frederick L. Covan, chief psychologist at Bellevue Hospital, offers a vivid portrait - compassionate, insightful, and humorous - of life on the inside of the combat zone that is the psych ward. In this colorful and irresistibly readable book he tracks the progress of a group of psychology interns who confront an array of patients from paranoid schizophrenics to self-mutilators and suicidal adolescents. These are the accounts of everyday trials by fire, where cases unfold with wildly unpredictable turns, where each intern…