A Story of Human Emotions
Dr. Karl Deisseroth
Dr. Karl Deisseroth is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (Stanford Profiles).
This book is a series of emergency psychiatric stories drawn from Dr. Deisseroth’s personal experience. The symptoms are described in the patient’s own words, allowing the reader to share the experience of the initial encounter.
As Dr. Deisseroth relates these stories, we gain insight into the human psyche and how it can falter and break. He generates compassion in us for the patient and the emotional strain the attending psychiatrist feels.
The case studies included in this book are,
- A man who survived a rollover car accident. He was trapped inside the upside-down vehicle with his pregnant wife.
- A young, four-year-old girl with double vision and difficulty coordinating the movement of both eyes.
- A man who was obsessed with a story he had heard concerning a father and his daughter who perished on the second plane in the terrorist attack of 9/11.
- A young man with perverse and delusional thoughts who started cutting himself.
- A troubled woman with paranoid delusions. These delusions led her to fabricate shields in her home to prevent others from spying on her. She eventually lost her job due to her strange behavior.
- A discussion of anorexia and bulimia and their destructive effects on the body.
- The case of a man with flat affect who was unresponsive to interaction. The doctor searched for a cause of delirium, dementia, anhedonia, or antisocial personality disorder.
These stories are related with compassion as we experience the patient’s struggle and the emotional impact on the medical and psychiatric staff.
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