Break: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 150887879X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 268 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Philip Stern has worked with patients in their most desperate hours, in order to help them regain the life they want to live. As a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, A. The reader also meets the clinicians who may represent the last best hope for these patients’ recovery. From the viewpoint of a talented medical student who psychologically crumbles under the pressure of his training, the reader is given rare access to the world of the locked inpatient psychiatry unit and the patients who are treated there. While all stories in this book are entirely fictional, the emotional and narrative core of the story stems from the world in which he trained.. In this book, you will follow the protagonist, Raine Weston, along his descent into madness and back with the help of a female psychiatry resident, Rose Mueller, whose own struggles with depression and alcoholism help to forge a unique bond between two fractured individuals
Saks, Best-Selling Author of The Center Cannot Hold: My JourneyThrough Madness. Praise for Break: "A. Wonderfully written and compelling, Break is a must read for anyoneinterested in human experience in all its diversity, and the role of psychiatryin helping to contain and address the mental illness that some of us face." --Elyn R. Philip Stern's novel, Break, tells the story of a young, hotshot doctor, who has a psychotic break and ends up in a psych ward. Hisdepictions of both the illness and the hospital treatment, including ECT, areriveting. The characters in his story are also rich and well-developed.As someone who has experienced some of this firsthand, I can attest that Sternreally gets it right - he captures the experience beautifully. Stern'sbook then both entertains and educates
Philip Stern, MD is an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. . He lives with his wife in Boston. His writing has been published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, The Healing Muse, Lifelines, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, among others. A
A great story and a must-read for anyone interested in psychiatry "Break: A Novel" is a rare find. The author is a knowledgeable psychiatrist, a skilled clinician, and a superb storyteller. From an omniscient person point of view, the novel offers the reader not merely a peek 'behind the curtain' into the world of mental illne. kool kat said a valuable picture of a psychiatric unit. I found the book a real page-turner, hard to put down. Raine generated my empathy. The book was very valuable in that it provided a glimpse for those of us who always wondered what went on behind the locked doors of a psychiatic unit. It also comforted in that i. "A mandatory read for those of us in medicine." according to Alexandra Stillman. A mandatory read for those of us in medicine. Right up there with House of God. Dr. Stern has done a remarkable job of delving into the darkness that can be all too prevalent in the medical profession.