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

A doctor of uncommon curiosity and compassion confronts cases that challenge and deepen her practice — In Falling Into the Fire, psychiatrist and author of Body of Work Christine Montross reveals the complexities of navigating the mind?s treacherous terrain. Montross?s journey spans the course of her residency and her early years as an attending ... more »physician, and is shaped by a set of gripping patient encounters. Each case study presents its own line of inquiry, leading Montross to seek relevant psychiatric knowledge from diverse sources. She 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.

The majority of the patients we meet 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.

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? What then? 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.

ISBN-13: 9781594203930
ISBN-10: 1594203938
Publication Date: 8/1/2013
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Book Type: Hardcover
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