
Sometimes Amazing Things Happen
Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
By: Elizabeth Ford
Hardcover | 12 January 2017
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Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn't until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling-to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of Rikers Island who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care.
These men were broken, unloved, without resources or support, and very ill. They could be violent, unpredictable, but they could also be funny and tender and needy. Mostly, they were human and they awakened in Ford a boundless compassion. Her patients made her a great doctor and a better person and, as she treated these men, she learned about doctoring, about nurturing, about parenting, and about love.
While Ford was a psychiatrist at Bellevue she becomes a wife and a mother. In her book she shares her struggles to balance her life and her work, to care for her children and her patients, and to maintain the empathy that is essential to her work-all in the face of a jaded institution, an exhausting workload, and the deeply emotionally taxing nature of her work.
Ford brings humor, grace, and humanity to the lives of the patients in her care and in beautifully rendered prose illuminates the inner workings (and failings) of our mental health system, our justice system, and the prison system.
About the Author
Elizabeth Ford, MD is currently the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services for New York City's Health and Hospitals and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. She was formerly the Director of Forensic Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital, specializing in the treatment of individuals with serious mental illness in the criminal justice system, and the Director of the NYU Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program.
Dr. Ford is the author of multiple peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters, as well as the editor of Landmark Cases in Forensic Psychiatry, a book about seminal U.S. Supreme Court cases related to psychiatry. She is a recognized national expert in issues related to incarceration and mental illness and teaches extensively about these topics. She lives in New York with her family.
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—Andrew Solomon, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology, Columbia University and author of Far From the Tree and Far and Away
ISBN: 9781941393437
ISBN-10: 1941393438
Published: 12th January 2017
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 272
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Regan Arts.
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 2.5 x 23.6 x 16
Weight (kg): 0.416
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