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Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

Christine Montross

3.8/5 ( ratings)

A woman habitually commits self-injury, ingesting light bulbs, a box of nails, zippers and a steak knife. A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of harming her child. A recent graduate, dressed in a tunic and declaring that love emanates from everything around him, is brought to A&E by his alarmed girlfriend. These are among the patients new physician Christine Montross meets during rounds at her hospital’s locked inpatient ward – and who we meet as she struggles to understand the mysteries of the mind, most especially when the tools of modern medicine are failing us. Beautifully written and deeply felt, Falling into the Fire is an intimate portrait of psychiatry and a moving reminder, in the words of the New York Times, of 'our fragile, shared humanity'

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Penguin Press

Release: August 01, 2013

ISBN: 1594203938

ISBN 13: 9781594203930

Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

Christine Montross

3.8/5 ( ratings)

A woman habitually commits self-injury, ingesting light bulbs, a box of nails, zippers and a steak knife. A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of harming her child. A recent graduate, dressed in a tunic and declaring that love emanates from everything around him, is brought to A&E by his alarmed girlfriend. These are among the patients new physician Christine Montross meets during rounds at her hospital’s locked inpatient ward – and who we meet as she struggles to understand the mysteries of the mind, most especially when the tools of modern medicine are failing us. Beautifully written and deeply felt, Falling into the Fire is an intimate portrait of psychiatry and a moving reminder, in the words of the New York Times, of 'our fragile, shared humanity'

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Penguin Press

Release: August 01, 2013

ISBN: 1594203938

ISBN 13: 9781594203930

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