Healing the Healer: What Fifty Years as a Physician/Psychiatrist While Having Multiple Sclerosis Taught...

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Sumter Carmichael

Healing the Healer

Name: Healing the Healer
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ISBN: 9798986981468

What Fifty Years as a Physician/Psychiatrist While Having Multiple Sclerosis Taught Me About...

Sumter Carmichael

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Stephen B Coleman Jr
12 January 2026

Biography: general; Medicine: general issues; Popular medicine & health

This is the biographical journey of a physician/psychiatrist who, dealing with her own 50 year struggle with MS, learned about the shortcomings of pill-driven, test-and-diagnose medical practice. Working with indigent patients in the county hospital, she observed many practices that could have been improved. Dr Carmichael offers solutions for how to improve medical treatment and how patients can help themselves.

By: Sumter Carmichael
Imprint: Stephen B Coleman Jr
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9798986981468
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 12 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sumter M. Carmichael, MD is a retired board-certified psychiatrist living in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband, Steve Coleman. Dr. Carmichael graduated from Stanford University and completed her MD degree at Cornell University Medical College in New York City. Following a medical internship under Dr. Tinsley Harrison in Birmingham, she did research for several years before taking a psychiatric residency. In addition she studied psychotherapy for seven years with a Freudian analyst and later with a Jungian analyst.She developed symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis at age 30, not diagnosed until ten years later. During that time, Dr, Carmichael continued a hospital-based practice as well as conducting individual, family, and group psychotherapy. In addition, she lectured to medical students in sophomore year Pharmacology course for thirteen years and in the junior year Medicine course.In 1990 she added working with indigent medical patients at the local county hospital, also teaching medical students and young doctors about pain, depression, anxiety, addiction and organic mental syndromes.