I Want It All: Fictionalized Dialogues from a Life in Psychiatry

by John E. Poarch

Dr. John E. Poarch draws form more than thirty years of psychiatric practice to reveal the human soul and psyche. He creates composites of characters who march on and off stages to illustrate the truths categorized in succinct chapter titles. Thirteen chapters create a collection of imaginary psychotherapy sessions with fictionalized patients to explore such issues as the individual conflicts from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building of 1995; facing disturbed armed patients (with a knife in one instance, and a gun in another); the difficult struggles of marriage; problems of adolescence; parental reactions to homosexual children; and situations of death and dying. In an accessible writing style, he addresses the humanity and psychology garnered from the decades of his practice, both from patients and his own struggles, and instincts his audience in the process.

225 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2002

Reviews

[Tracy · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book had been on my shelves for years through multiple moves, so I finally decided to move it out of the purgatory of the "unread shelf" and finally give it a shot. I don't even remember where it came from, but given that it was written by an Oklahoma psychiatrist around the time I was in college, I'm thinking it had to have been part of some required reading for a class taught by a friend of the author. Otherwise, nobody ever would own such a pile of garbage.