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    Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
    Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
    Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
    Audiobook9 hours

    Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine

    Written by Damon Tweedy, M.D.

    Narrated by Damon Tweedy, M.D.

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    This program is read by the author.

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine

    As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive causes and unsettling behaviors, simply did not exist, millions of people suffer from them, sometimes to an extreme extent. Many others face addiction to alcohol and other drugs, as overdose and suicide deaths abound. Yet the vast majority of doctors receive minimal instruction in treating these conditions during their lengthy medical training. This mismatch ignores the clear overlap between physical and mental distress, and too-often puts psychiatrists on the outside looking in as the medical system continues to fail many patients.

    In Facing The Unseen, bestselling author, professor of psychiatry, and practicing physician Damon Tweedy guides us through his days working in outpatient clinics, emergency rooms, and hospitals as he meets people from all walks of life who are grappling with physical and psychological illnesses. In powerful, compassionate, and eloquent prose, Tweedy argues for a more comprehensive and integrated approach where people with mental illness have a health care system that places their full well-being front and center.

    A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

    Editor's Note

    A cry for care…

    Tweedy, a physician, psychiatry professor, and author of the memoir “Black Man in a White Coat,” makes a compelling case for integrated healthcare. Today, mental health channels like psychiatry are far-removed from other forms of physical care, but in Tweedy’s experience, the issues are usually interrelated. As it stands now, due to a lack of integrated medicine options, providers potentially miss treatment opportunities and patients may suffer unnecessarily.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateApr 9, 2024
    ISBN9781250333070
    Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
    Author

    Damon Tweedy, M.D.

    DAMON TWEEDY, MD is a professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine and staff physician at the Durham Veteran Affairs Health System. His first book, Black Man in a White Coat, was a New York Times Bestseller, selected by TIME magazine as one of the Top 10 Non-fiction books of that year. He has also published articles about race, medicine, and mental health in medical journals and print publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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