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Celtic Crossing
It is the 1880s in an Irish neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Harold Cullen arranges for his two handsome Irish sons to meet two lovely Irish sisters. The two sisters are daughters of Harold's boyhood friend from his days of growing up in Dublin. The play opens with a dramatic event in 1886. Scene by scene we work our way back three years to 1883. We learn that however important destiny may appear, the journey of getting there is more magnetic. Nothing we say or do in life is small or tossed away. In fact, everything we say or do is gargantuan. But who of us grasps this fact of life as we laboriously move forward in time?
Psychiatry for Actors
Psychiatry for Actors: Building Characters Using Psychiatric Principles is a textbook for helping actors, directors, and playwrights in creating characters in plays and films. There are no characters in plays and films, who are not impacted by normal and/or abnormal psychiatric and psychological phenomena. It is important to be faithful to the true presentations of behaviors since audience members know from their personal, family, friends, and community experiences of the true presentations of behaviors. It is based upon Donald Fidler's 30 years of experience of teaching medical students, teaching psychiatry residents, teaching acting students, coaching actors, and writing and directing plays and films.
Boogieban: The Play
Boogieban: This version is an expanded version of the original two-actor script to eight characters. Boogieban is about Lawrence Caplan, a Vietnam War veteran who became a military psychiatrist. Before retiring to sip wine with his wife upon their sailboat, Peacemaker, Caplan is asked to assess one last soldier. His patient is a young specialist, who stubbornly insists that he is "good to go" back to his unit in Afghanistan. Caplan soon discovers, however, the soldier is tortured by nightmares and flashbacks. Unexpectedly, the soldier's story unveils Lieutenant Colonel Caplan's amnesia for Vietnam. Together, the two men launch on parallel journeys of the heart that will change them forever.
Leaders and Followers
Psychiatrists are in a unique position to understand the personalities, needs, and motivations of cult leaders and followers. This report assumes that unique vantage point in its review of the cult phenomenon. What are the psychiatric attributes of cult leaders and followers? Why do individuals join cults? Can cults play a constructive role in an individual's life? And how can psychiatrists help family and friends deal with cult members? Supported by numerous references, this report presents statistics and colorful descriptions of American cults and their effect on those who embrace them.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications. The Handbook is divided into three sections: Individuals’ everyday health communication Health professionals’ communicative practices Patient-provider communication in interaction Special attention is given to cross-cutting themes, including the role of technology in health communication, narrative, and observations of authentic, naturally-occurring contexts. The chapters are written by international authorities representing a wide range of perspectives and approaches. Building on established work with cutting-edge studies on the changing health communication landscape, this volume will be an essential reference for all those involved in health communication and applied linguistics research and practice.
Forced Into Treatment
What role does coercion play in psychiatric treatment? Does it increase or decrease the chances for successful outcome? Forced Into Treatment discusses various aspects of coercion ranging from the role of coercion in initiation psychiatric treatment to its effect on treatment process and outcome. The book demonstrated that a patient who is appropriately forced into treatment can more from initial defiance, through reluctant compliance, to a successful therapeutic alliance and a successful outcome. In addition, Forced Into Treatment addresses the role of coercion, power, and authority in socializing children the use of coercive social pressure as a motivation to seek help the effects of court-ordered treatment for people who have refused psychiatric help the historical and legal aspects regarding coercive treatment
In the Long Run...Longitudinal Studies of Psychopathology in Children
his volume presents studies of the outcome of pathology for children with specific psychiatric diagnoses, such as in children with chronic medical illnesses, childhood traumas, mood and anxiety disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorders, and eating disorders.
Video and Film Reviews
The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry.
Boogieban: Two-Actor Script
This script of Boogieban is a two-actor version of the larger cast play for use in rehearsals and performances. This version premiered at None Too Fragile Theatre in Akron, Ohio in 2018 and won the 2018 Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Premier of a New Play and Best Actor. In 2019 it played in Chicago and Off-Broadway in New York. The play is about Lawrence Caplan, a Vietnam War veteran who became a military psychiatrist. Caplan is retiring after losing his own son in Afghanistan. Before leaving, he is ordered to assess one last soldier, a young specialist, who stubbornly insists that he is ""good to go"" back to his unit in Afghanistan. Caplan soon discovers, however, the soldier is tortured by nightmares and flashbacks. Unexpectedly, the soldier's story begins to lift Caplan's amnesia for his own horrors in Vietnam. The two men launch on parallel journeys of the heart that change them forever.
