SOMETIMES AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN: HEARTBREAK AND HOPE ON THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC PRISON WARD
Book ID/图书代码： 11450717C00002
English Summary/英文概要： From the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services in New York City comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue Hospital’s forensic psychiatry unit and brings to life the world—the system, the staff, and the haunting cases—that shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned about respect, survival and our shared humanity.
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 New York City’s jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care.
These men were broken, 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 empathy. Her patients made her a great doctor and a better person.
While Ford was a psychiatrist at Bellevue she became a wife and a mother. In her book she shares her struggles to balance her personal and professional lives, to care for her children and her patients, and to maintain the empathy that is essential to her practice—all in the face of a complex 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 and criminal justice systems.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 纽约惩教健康服务中心首席精神病专家与我们分享充满同情和怜悯的回忆录，向我们揭示了贝尔维尤医院的精神病部门，包括其中的系统、员工和那些骇人听闻的案例，通过这些经历，使一名年轻的精神病学家学会了尊重、生存和人道主义。
Elizabeth Ford 经历过医学院的迷茫年代，直到接触到精神病领域后才发现自己的志向——照顾哪些患有精神疾病的脆弱人群，那些病情过重的精神病患者被送到贝尔维尤医院监狱病房。
这些人病得很重，得不到资源，也得不到支持。他们可能具有很强的暴力倾向，会意想不到地攻击别人，但同时，他们也很有趣、温和。最重要的是，他们是人类，他们唤醒了Ford的共鸣。Ford的病人令她成为了一名伟大的医生、一个更加善良的人。
Ford在贝尔维尤医院担任精神病学家期间，结婚生子。在她的书中，谈到了自己是如何努力平衡工作和家庭生活的，一方面要照顾孩子，一方面要照顾病人，在这样一所复杂的精神病院，令人精疲力尽的工作量，加上面对精神病患者情感上的压力和挑战…… （LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“在这部充满勇气、直接的叙述中，作者Elizabeth Ford描述了犯罪行为和精神疾病之间错综复杂的关系，充满同情和见解，涉及了社会上被忽略的群体。作者的工作热情对我们所有来说都是一种鼓舞。”——Andrew Solomon博士，临床心理学教授
“曾经有人告诉过我，不现实的期待会令我们崩溃，但希望永远不会。作者Ford有关精神病房的探索不会击溃我们，但是，就像这位优秀的医生一样，她的故事在绝望中找到了希望和同情。《有时奇迹会出现》能令读者大开眼界，改变我们的态度，坚定社会上最受折磨的、也是被遗忘的人群的价值。我深受感动。”——Wally Lamb，作家
“《有时奇迹会出现》，如果你愿意打开心扉，接受这样的理念：即便是在最具挑战的环境下，仍旧可以发现、保护并培养尊严和人性，从而帮助愈合社会带来的创伤……随着故事的展开，读者将跟随令人惊讶的旅程，发现人类精神的韧性以及治愈和希望的机遇。”——Debra A. Pinals，精神病学临床教授
About the Author/作者介绍： Elizabeth Ford 现任纽约惩教健康服务中心首席精神病学专家，同时兼任纽约大学医学院临床副教授。她曾在贝尔维尤医院担任司法精神病学主任，专攻司法体系中患有严重心理疾病的患者的治疗。Ford著有多篇学术著作和书籍章节，曾编辑著作《司法精神病学中的经典案例》。她是全国知名的监禁与心理疾病领域的专家，在该领域广泛任教。目前她与家人居住在纽约。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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