Suddenly I Heard a Voice: Be a Doctor!
I didn’t cry out or fall writhing to the floor.
Rather: Oh, sure, why not?
Intrigued by personality theory, college student John Curran heeds a voice commanding him to
attend medical school. Thus begins a lifelong quest and an unexpected career in psychiatry.
In The Accidental Psychiatrist, we follow Dr. Curran through his education and fifty years of
practice.
He works with distressed individuals of all types—people hospitalized with psychosis, chronic pain
sufferers, addicts, troubled adolescents—and as his experience widens and deepens, he gains
valuable insights.
Among them:
• All anxiety is rooted in the fear of separation from others—the loss
of attachment.
• Trauma results in the loss of trust and difficulties in forming healthy attach-
ments: a phenomenon Dr. Curran calls Attachment Disability.
• Labeling such inevitable suffering as disease risks creating a Double
Disability: a disability about the disability.
• Normalizing such suffering rather than pathologizing it reduces any associated
Attachment Disability.
Rather: Oh, sure, why not?
Intrigued by personality theory, college student John Curran heeds a voice commanding him to
attend medical school. Thus begins a lifelong quest and an unexpected career in psychiatry.
In The Accidental Psychiatrist, we follow Dr. Curran through his education and fifty years of
practice.
He works with distressed individuals of all types—people hospitalized with psychosis, chronic pain
sufferers, addicts, troubled adolescents—and as his experience widens and deepens, he gains
valuable insights.
Among them:
• All anxiety is rooted in the fear of separation from others—the loss
of attachment.
• Trauma results in the loss of trust and difficulties in forming healthy attach-
ments: a phenomenon Dr. Curran calls Attachment Disability.
• Labeling such inevitable suffering as disease risks creating a Double
Disability: a disability about the disability.
• Normalizing such suffering rather than pathologizing it reduces any associated
Attachment Disability.
Title Information:Title: The Accidental Psychiatrist
Subtitle: On Normalizing Chronic Pain and Emotional Turmoil to Reduce Disability and Prevent Overprescribing, Addiction, and Overdose Author: John Curran, MD, ABPN Publisher: Bidwell Learning Institute Paper Edition: Price: $21.95 Available at bookstores and through online retailers. |
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