Sometimes Amazing Things Happen
Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
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نقد و بررسی
May 15, 2017
The focus of this book is mental health care in a correctional facilities setting, but it's also the very personal story of a dedicated psychiatrist who survived and thrived there. The work begins with Ford's (psychiatry, New York Univ. Sch. of Medicine; coeditor, Landmark Cases in Forensic Psychiatry) intern assignment at New York City's notorious Bellevue Hospital in 2000. She goes on to serve as the hospital's director of forensic psychiatry (she's currently chief of psychiatry for New York City's correctional health services) and becomes a wife and mother. Chapters describe patients and the challenges Ford faced in the prison ward environment with detainees mainly from Rikers Island. Clinical symptoms, treatment, and behaviors are discussed in layman's terms along with staff strengths and failings. Patient profiles tend to be sensitively drawn, though detail about patient backgrounds and outcomes would have enhanced the text. This compassionate portrayal contrasts markedly with the harsher perspective expressed in Stephen Seager's Behind the Gates of Gomorrah. VERDICT This illuminating and inspiring insider's view of jailhouse psychiatry should appeal to readers interested in criminal justice issues.--Antoinette Brinkman, formerly with Southwest Indiana Mental Health Ctr. Lib., Evansville
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