Falling into the Fire - A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

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A woman habitually commits self-injury, ingesting light bulbs, a box of nails, zips and a steak knife. A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of harming her child. A recent uni graduate, dressed in a tunic and declaring that love emanates from everything around him, is brought to Ax{0026}E by his alarmed girlfriend. These are among the patients new consultant 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.