Tanya Luhrmann's Of Two Minds

This is a book about the theory and practice of psychiatry in the United States, as conveyed to those in psychiatric residency training. It is written by an anthropologist, Tanya Luhrmann, who studied psychiatric residents and their teachers over many years, as one might study a strange tribe with established customs that is undergoing challenge and change. Luhrmann used methods of close observation and even participation for her project. Although I question some of the author’s conclusions, I strongly recommend reading Of Two Minds. The book provides both pleasure, as it reveals the intriguing strangeness of aspects of our profession that we take for granted, and intellectual challenge, as it conceptualizes the moral and philosophical implications