Women in Psychiatry

Table of Contents
Part 1: 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 2: 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