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Laddar... Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis (2013)av Christine Montross
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Interesting read of a psychiatrist explaining mental illnesses in layman terms. Crossed more into a memoir than I expected. ( ) My library sends out a newsletter called Wowbrary every Wednesday listing the week's latest additions. The description of this book made it sound fascinating so I arranged to grab a copy. Sadly for me the book didn't live up to my expectations for it. The author, Christine Montross, writes about some of her more unusual psychiatric cases. They include a woman who will swallow literally anything left within reach when she gets distressed, a man who is so beaten down that he can remain asleep even when subjected to pain, and people who want their healthy limbs amputated. The cases themselves are endlessly fascinating but other than relating them no real insight is provided. I don't think these people ever became cured of their mental illness. My impression when I got done with this book is that the field of psychiatry has not made tremendous progress in the past two hundred years. They can medicate the heck out of you but that is treating the symptoms not solving the problem. Weighing down the book is the author's personal asides into her family life that did not add anything to the reason I picked up the book in the first place. I couldn't care less about her family life. I wanted to see people with complex problems getting real help. I hope the people portrayed here eventually did. The alternative is too sad to think about. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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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 she treats here are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. Each case study presents its own line of inquiry, leading her 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. Throughout, she 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, she 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.--From publisher description. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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