Surviving: My Career As A Psychiatric Technician

by Michael Paul Raff, Jenny Margotta (editor)

When Michael Raff trained to become a psychiatric technician, he vowed he would do everything in his power to help those suffering from mental and physical handicaps. Over the course of thirty-four-years he faced countless dangerous situations, was at times ostracized by management, and was stressed beyond endurance. He was punched, kicked, bitten, and ultimately disabled by violent patients. Alongside his fellow psych techs, he worked with murderers, paranoid-schizophrenics, sociopaths, and those who were afflicted with horrible physical deformities. Within the pages of this book, revealed for the very first time, are hundreds of true and disturbing accounts

387 pages, Paperback

Published December 2, 2024