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Falling Into the Fire - A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis (Paperback)
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Falling Into the Fire - A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis (Paperback)
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"Falling Into the Fire "is psychiatrist Christine Montross's
thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that
have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the
patients Montross treats in "Falling Into the Fire" are seen in the
locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in
moments of profound crisis. We meet a young woman who habitually
commits self-injury, having ingested light bulbs, a box of nails,
and a steak knife, among other objects. Her repeated visits to the
hospital incite the frustration of the staff, leading Montross to
examine how emotion can interfere with proper care. A recent
college graduate, dressed in a tunic and declaring that love
emanates from everything around him, is brought to the ER by his
concerned girlfriend. Is it ecstasy or psychosis? What legal
ability do doctors have to hospitalize--and sometimes medicate--a
patient against his will? A new mother is admitted with incessant
visions of harming her child. Is she psychotic and a danger or does
she suffer from obsessive thoughts? Her course of treatment--and
her child's future--depends upon whether she receives the correct
diagnosis.
Each case study presents its own line of inquiry, leading Montross
to seek relevant psychiatric knowledge from diverse sources. A
doctor of uncommon curiosity and compassion, Montross discovers
lessons in medieval dancing plagues, in leading forensic and
neurological research, and in moments from her own life.
Beautifully written, deeply felt, "Falling Into the Fire" brings us
inside the doctor's mind, illuminating the grave human costs of
mental illness as well as the challenges of diagnosis and
treatment.
Throughout, Montross confronts the larger question of psychiatry:
What is to be done when a patient's experiences cannot be accounted
for, or helped, by what contemporary medicine knows about the
brain? When all else fails, Montross finds, what remains is the
capacity to abide, to sit with the desperate in their darkest
moments. At once rigorous and meditative, "Falling Into the Fire"
is an intimate portrait of psychiatry, allowing the reader to
witness the humanity of the practice and the enduring mysteries of
the mind
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