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Sometimes amazing things happen : heartbreak and hope on the Bellevue Hospital psychiatric prison ward / Elizabeth Ford.

by Ford, Elizabeth (Elizabeth B.)

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Regan Arts, 2017.

Ford, Elizabeth (Elizabeth B.)

Bellevue Hospital.

Women psychiatrists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

Psychiatrists -- United States -- Biography.

Mentally ill prisoners -- Care -- New York (State) -- New York.

Prisoners -- Mental health services -- New York (State) -- New York.

Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York.

9781941393437 (hc.)

First Regan Arts hardcover edition.

viii, 247 pages ; 24 cm.

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.

Welcome to the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward, a maximum-security hospital and inpatient psychiatric unit for the inmates of the New York City jail system, with its hub on Rikers Island. It is a world of heartbreak, violence, and pain, where severely ill men are often lost in a tangle of courts, jails, and bureaucracy. It is also a place of challenges, redemption, and surprising joy, where tough, hardworking doctors and staff fight to care for and keep safe a population that many would like to forget. This is where Dr. Elizabeth Ford found her calling. She shares her stories of caring for these patients, from one of the most hated and alienated inmates at Rikers, who cries when discussing his abusive childhood, to the writer who agrees to treatment in exchange for Dr. Ford's take on the opening chapter of his book, to the twenty-four-year-old schizophrenic whom Dr. Ford later encounters on the streets of Manhattan, happy and healthy after finally finding the right medication. Ford's memoir is marked by explosive crises and episodes of violent psychosis, but also moving stories of compassion and hope in the face of overwhelming dysfunction. Elizabeth Ford, MD, is currently the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services for New York City's Health and Hospitals.

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