Bibliograph

Sometimes amazing things happen, heartbreak and hope on the Bellevue Hospital psychiatric prison ward, Elizabeth Ford, MD

Type

Label

Sometimes amazing things happen, heartbreak and hope on the Bellevue Hospital psychiatric prison ward, Elizabeth Ford, MD

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sometimes amazing things happen

Oclc number

982289479

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth Ford, MD

Sub title

heartbreak and hope on the Bellevue Hospital psychiatric prison ward

Summary

The chief of psychiatry for Correctional Health Services in New York City presents a memoir of her work inside Bellevue Hospital's forensic psychiatry unit to share insights into the cases, colleagues, and system that have shaped her views about survival and humanity

Table Of Contents

The body bag -- Caught between the cracks -- Stars over Bellevue -- Never what you expect -- The tender and the troubled -- Mama grizzly -- Pushing the limit -- What doesn't break you -- The listening cure -- A mother's love -- Even the stars can fall -- When darkness comes -- Shelter the broken -- Unraveling -- Burnout strikes -- Out of the depths -- Death and birth -- Reunion -- Back to the fire -- Welcome back -- Under the surface -- Keeping secrets -- Compassion is a verb -- When the bridges close -- When the lights go out -- A light in the dark -- Grace will lead -- On the island -- Keeping promises -- Difficult goodbye -- Sometimes amazing things happen -- A story worth telling -- Higher power -- Ping-pong therapy -- A brighter day -- Beyond Bellevue

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