Trouble in Mind: An Unorthodox Introduction to Psychiatry

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments So many fellow faculty members will recognize their ideas in these pages that a collective thank you is in order, especially to those who have taught the Johns Hopkins medical students with me, and me with the medical students. Any authority I can bring to these ideas I owe to my patients, and to the teammates , students, residents, colleagues, and mentors who have worked with me to help them. A book like this is in some ways the culmination of a lifelong journey. Among my earliest guides to the life of the mind were Judy Kreiling and Bob Markwood, who taught me that science and creative writing go together very well. Alan Kors and Philip Rieff at Penn taught me to think critically about the mind and what it can do; Larry Squire at UCSD taught me how to go from just thinking about the mind to exploring it. Here in Baltimore, George Gallahorn and Phillip Slavney in their distinctive ways steered me to a safe harbor from which I could take such excursions. Peter Rabins and Ray DePaulo at Hopkins both provided essential moral support for this project. For their constructive criticism of the manuscript in its various drafts, I thank Eric and Roberta Anderson , Jay Baraban, Tony Carlino, Ray DePaulo, David Edwin, Paul McHugh, BarbaraSchweizer,BethWinter,andtheeditorsandreviewersattheJohnsHopkins University Press. Although the writing is entirely my own, Drs. McHugh and Slavney, through their dogmatically anti-dogmatic approach to psychiatry, must be acknowledged as silent co-authors, anywhere my discussion of the four types of mental problem—disease, vulnerability, behavior, and adversity— echoes their four perspectives of psychiatry. Finally, words cannot begin to express my gratitude to my wife, Catherine Washburn, and our sons, Ian, Jared, and Peter (and quasi-sons Jack and Masayuki as well), for their patience with me while I spent many an evening and weekend tinkering with the text. This page intentionally left blank Trouble in Mind This page intentionally left blank ...