PDF-(EBOOK)-Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist\'s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montrosss 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 selfinjury 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 hospitalizeand sometimes medicatea 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 treatmentand her childs futuredepends upon whether she receives the correct diagnosisEach 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 doctors mind illuminating the grave human costs of mental illness as well as the challenges of diagnosis and treatmentThroughout Montross confronts the larger question of psychiatry What is to be done when a patients 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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