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Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist (édition 2012)

par Darcy Lockman (Auteur)

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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Psychology. Nonfiction. HTML:"'Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here' might well be the words above the door of Kings County Hospital's notorious G Building. Serial killer Son of Sam and rap legend Ol' Dirty Bastard punched their tickets at this under-funded, over-crowded mental hospital; so does Darcy Lockman, a wet-behind-the-ears psych intern fresh out of graduate school. She can empathize with the human flotsam washed up on the outer edge of outer Brooklyn--the white folks get sent to Bellevue, in Manhattan--but more to the point, she can write. Brooklyn Zoo is a sorrowful and fascinating portrait of the institutional underworld where criminality and mental illness co-exist, and patients find themselves at the mercy of a medical-penal complex ill-equipped to either cure or punish them.". HTML:"Reading Brooklyn Zoo is like getting a nightly e-mail from your best friend as she explores the far side of the moon. I gasped at what she saw and alternately winced and cheered at her responses. A smart, delightful surprise of a book.". HTML:"Brooklyn Zoo takes us to places where very, very few of us would ever go--or want to go. This interesting memoir deals with situations which might be considered hopeless with great compassion and clarity. For so many of these people, mental illness is the least of their worries but the most of their handicaps. An insight therapist is at a huge disadvantage, and Lockman feels it deeply. She cares about people in a way that few of us dare.". "A former journalist, Lockman delivers fascinating revelations.... [A] good story.". HTML:"Darcy Lockman left her journalism career to become a psychotherapist. Clearly a gifted writer, the decision could not have been easy. But she made it and stuck with it.... Brooklyn Zoo, to be released in July 2012, is expertly written: The prose flows, the pacing is even, and the structure is well crafted. As well, the content--the story--is utterly fascinating.... It is...an intelligently written, sobering look at what it takes to be a psychotherapist.... It's the kind of book you don't want to rush through; you want to dwell on each chapter, and meditate on Lockman's experiences to get a fuller sense of what she saw. With a unique voice and a knack for painting verbal portraits, Lockman has delivered a rare gem.". Based on her own positive experience in psychoanalysis, Lockman pursued an education in the psychoanalytic tradition, which included supervised therapy with clients, one of whom she saw over a three-year period. She explains that this put her at odds with the mainstream of the profession today because of "the pernicious hostility toward the psychoanalytical way of working," which often dismisses psychological problems as "nothing more than chemical occurrences in the brain.". HTML: A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist's clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan's classic Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Seven years after her college graduation, Darcy Lockman abandoned a career in magazine journalism to become a psychologist. After four years in classrooms, she spent her final training year at the Kings County Hospital, an aging public institution on the outskirts of Brooklyn. When she started, little did she know that the hospital's behavioral health department--the infamous G Building, where the Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz and the rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard once resided--was on the cusp of its darkest era yet, one that culminated in the death of a patient in a psychiatric emergency room described by the New York Post as a "Dickensian nightmare." Brooklyn Zoo unfolds amid the constant drama and disorder of the G Building. Lockman rotates through four departments, each of which presents new challenges and haunting cases. She works with forensic psychologists to evaluate offenders for fitness to stand trial--almost all of them with pathos-filled histories and little hope of rehabilitation. The thorny politics of the psych ER compound her anxiety about working with its volatile patients, but under the wing of a charismatic if brusque mentor she gains a deeper insight into her new profession as well as into her own strengths and limitations. As she moves to the inpatient ward and then psychiatric consultation liaison, Lockman's overstretched supervisors and the institutional preference for pills over therapy are persistent obstacles. But they eventually present a young clinician with the opportunity to reexamine everything she believes and to come out stronger on the other side. Lockman's frank portrayal of her fledgling role in a warped system is a professional coming-of-age story that will resonate with anyone who has fought to develop career mastery in a demanding environment. A stark portrait of the struggling public mental-health-care system, Brooklyn Zoo is also an homage to the doctors who remain committed to their patients in spite of institutional failures and to the patients who strive to get better with their help. And it is an inspiring first-hand account by a narrator who triumphs over self-doubt to believe in the rightness and efficacy of her chosen profession. .… (plus d'informations)

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Bibliodidact | Sep 1, 2013 |

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This was an interesting book for the insight it gave into a psychotherapist's training in a mental hospital. The fact that reflected primarily the author's impressions and opinions was both a strength and a weakness. It was a strength because providing her personal feelings and responses made it a more intimate portrayal of the place and people she described. It was a weakness because some of her biases reduced the appeal and reliability of her impressions. For example her immediate negative impression of her first mentor, before even meeting her, because she was neuropsychologist, did not allow her to get to know that person or I might add, learn anything from her that might have been useful. Similarly, her assumption that the medical students or house staff would be arrogant and would not respect her, set her up to have a negative experience. (

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cindyst2000 | Jan 8, 2013 |

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When I read the description of this book, I had high hopes. I was thinking it would be something like Julie Holland's Weekends at Bellevue (2009). However, this book was less about the patients and more about the patience (or lack thereof) of the author in her training to become a psychotherapist. I was bored right off the bat and honestly don't remember much of the book. It was a memoir on ADD - all over the place. What I did find interesting in this book is a description of the way psychotherapists/psychiatrists are trained. I had always wondered what that process was, but had no idea it was this in-depth. (

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Jackie.the.Librarian | Jul 15, 2012 |

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This is the story of a post doctoral student completing her intership at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.
The book was poorly written, the characters have no depth and editing is lacking. Sentence structure is tortured, there is no follow- through with the patients and the reader cares, not a whit, for what happens on the next page nor the next chapter. I did not bother to finish this book - there are too many good books out there that are begging to be read. (

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jeanie1 | Jul 13, 2012 |

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Darcy has decided to go back to school and become a psychologist. Her last year of school is to be a practical course, conducted in the field at Kings County Hospital, a run down, disorganized hospital. She rotates through four departments, providing us her insight and failures of each. Despite problems with her advisers, inadequate conditions and a poor learning environment, Darcy manages to survives the year and become a psychologist.

Overall, I thought this book was interesting, well written and engaging. She presented some unique patients to us while venting her frustration at the medical profession in general. It was an interesting look into both the hospital and academic world. I enjoyed this book and would be interesting in reading Darcy's next. (

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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Psychology. Nonfiction. HTML:"'Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here' might well be the words above the door of Kings County Hospital's notorious G Building. Serial killer Son of Sam and rap legend Ol' Dirty Bastard punched their tickets at this under-funded, over-crowded mental hospital; so does Darcy Lockman, a wet-behind-the-ears psych intern fresh out of graduate school. She can empathize with the human flotsam washed up on the outer edge of outer Brooklyn--the white folks get sent to Bellevue, in Manhattan--but more to the point, she can write. Brooklyn Zoo is a sorrowful and fascinating portrait of the institutional underworld where criminality and mental illness co-exist, and patients find themselves at the mercy of a medical-penal complex ill-equipped to either cure or punish them.". HTML:"Reading Brooklyn Zoo is like getting a nightly e-mail from your best friend as she explores the far side of the moon. I gasped at what she saw and alternately winced and cheered at her responses. A smart, delightful surprise of a book.". HTML:"Brooklyn Zoo takes us to places where very, very few of us would ever go--or want to go. This interesting memoir deals with situations which might be considered hopeless with great compassion and clarity. For so many of these people, mental illness is the least of their worries but the most of their handicaps. An insight therapist is at a huge disadvantage, and Lockman feels it deeply. She cares about people in a way that few of us dare.". "A former journalist, Lockman delivers fascinating revelations.... [A] good story.". HTML:"Darcy Lockman left her journalism career to become a psychotherapist. Clearly a gifted writer, the decision could not have been easy. But she made it and stuck with it.... Brooklyn Zoo, to be released in July 2012, is expertly written: The prose flows, the pacing is even, and the structure is well crafted. As well, the content--the story--is utterly fascinating.... It is...an intelligently written, sobering look at what it takes to be a psychotherapist.... It's the kind of book you don't want to rush through; you want to dwell on each chapter, and meditate on Lockman's experiences to get a fuller sense of what she saw. With a unique voice and a knack for painting verbal portraits, Lockman has delivered a rare gem.". Based on her own positive experience in psychoanalysis, Lockman pursued an education in the psychoanalytic tradition, which included supervised therapy with clients, one of whom she saw over a three-year period. She explains that this put her at odds with the mainstream of the profession today because of "the pernicious hostility toward the psychoanalytical way of working," which often dismisses psychological problems as "nothing more than chemical occurrences in the brain.". HTML:

A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist's clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan's classic Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Seven years after her college graduation, Darcy Lockman abandoned a career in magazine journalism to become a psychologist. After four years in classrooms, she spent her final training year at the Kings County Hospital, an aging public institution on the outskirts of Brooklyn. When she started, little did she know that the hospital's behavioral health department--the infamous G Building, where the Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz and the rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard once resided--was on the cusp of its darkest era yet, one that culminated in the death of a patient in a psychiatric emergency room described by the New York Post as a "Dickensian nightmare."

Brooklyn Zoo unfolds amid the constant drama and disorder of the G Building. Lockman rotates through four departments, each of which presents new challenges and haunting cases. She works with forensic psychologists to evaluate offenders for fitness to stand trial--almost all of them with pathos-filled histories and little hope of rehabilitation. The thorny politics of the psych ER compound her anxiety about working with its volatile patients, but under the wing of a charismatic if brusque mentor she gains a deeper insight into her new profession as well as into her own strengths and limitations.

As she moves to the inpatient ward and then psychiatric consultation liaison, Lockman's overstretched supervisors and the institutional preference for pills over therapy are persistent obstacles. But they eventually present a young clinician with the opportunity to reexamine everything she believes and to come out stronger on the other side.

Lockman's frank portrayal of her fledgling role in a warped system is a professional coming-of-age story that will resonate with anyone who has fought to develop career mastery in a demanding environment. A stark portrait of the struggling public mental-health-care system, Brooklyn Zoo is also an homage to the doctors who remain committed to their patients in spite of institutional failures and to the patients who strive to get better with their help. And it is an inspiring first-hand account by a narrator who triumphs over self-doubt to believe in the rightness and efficacy of her chosen profession.