Nassir Ghaemi
Auteur van A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
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S. Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts university School of Medicine, and Director of the Mood Disorders and Psychopharmacology Programs, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Werken van Nassir Ghaemi
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness (2011) 415 exemplaren
The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness (2003) 20 exemplaren
A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health: Measuring Truth and Uncertainty (Cambridge… (2009) 18 exemplaren
The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry (2009) 15 exemplaren
A Mente Louca dos Grandes Líderes 1 exemplaar
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A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between… door Nassir Ghaemi
Fantastic book about the link between illnesses such as bipolar disorder and the ability to manage/rule/have power. The sections about JFK flabbergasted me, I had no idea about all the meds he was on. A real eye opener.
I loved the premise of the book, and Ghaemi, but he doesn't do the best job backing up his argument. My problem is that I felt he spent too much time linking the respective leaders with a mental/mood disorder and not enough time explaining how that disorder aided them in their leadership endeavors; in other words, concrete evidence is lacking. It isn't enough to just explain how [disorder] enforces [character trait].
The book is also a bit repetitive. I stopped reading after I finished the introduction to empathy, but I definitely intend to go back and read the section on "mentally healthy" leaders, which I expect to offer a change of pace.… (meer)
The book is also a bit repetitive. I stopped reading after I finished the introduction to empathy, but I definitely intend to go back and read the section on "mentally healthy" leaders, which I expect to offer a change of pace.… (meer)
I found this a really interesting book to read post-Christmas (get the grey cells working while not overloading them). I wasn't familiar with some of the featured historic personages but even so I was able to follow the arguments. In a way that says it all.
Highly interesting desk-top study of the various mental illnesses of a few great crisis-time leaders, how these illnesses improved the ability to lead during crises, and how treatments received helped or hindered. Useful discussion of the irrational stigma of mental vs physical illness.
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