Women in Psychiatry Personal Perspectives

Preface. Foreword. Introduction. Part I: The Early Years. Embarking on a career path: persistence, process, and psychiatry. A woman of culture and compassion from the Carolinas. Emerging from the shadow and exposed to the light. An early-career perspective on work, parenthood, and leadership: you can have it all, you just can’t have it all right now. Part II: Mid-Career and Beyond: A Mosaic. Farmer’s daughter excels in psychiatry. Finding my way: a nontraditional career in psychiatry. Getting to the inner circle: the long, hard road. An adventurous journey: from the holy city to the windy city. Mission driven and road tested: a career path in psychiatry. A community psychiatrist straddling worlds and bridging chasms. Administration, advocacy, and academics: one woman’s experience. Specializing in the wholly impossible. The challenges of leadership: a woman’s perspective. Having the courage and conviction to succeed. Army psychiatrist. A serendipitous career: from cowboy to out lesbian faculty psychiatrist. Another immigrant’s tale: so near and yet so far. Receiving effective support while making culture and language changes. Unexpected adventures behind the walls. My partly planned journey: what has worked for me. Centering. Index.