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Christine Montross

Born

August 30, 1973

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Christine Montross is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour at Brown University and a practising inpatient psychiatrist with an MFA in poetry. Her writing has appeared in literary journals and women’s magazines as well as the New York Times. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Christine Montross’s books

Average rating: 4.01 · 4,062 ratings · 453 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab 3.96 avg rating — 1,944 ratings — published 2007 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis 3.88 avg rating — 1,389 ratings — published 2013 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration 4.47 avg rating — 602 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill by Jeffrey Eugenides, Judy Sternlight (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Donald Antrim 3.87 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The midpoint in medicine between excessive emotional involvement with patients and a complete lack of empathy is not a simple one to locate.”
― Christine Montross, Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

tags: bedside-manner, doctors, doctors-and-patients, empathy, medical-school, medical-students, medicine

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“Even the most comic moment contains an element of melancholy; even the deepest tragedy harbors a trace of the ironic.”
― Christine Montross, Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

tags: melancholy, tragedy

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“Standing on the edge with my patients — abiding with them — means that I must harbor a true awareness that I, too, could lose my child through the play of circumstance over which I have no control. I could lose my home, my financial security, my safety. I could lose my mind. Any of us could.”
― Christine Montross, Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

tags: awareness, child, loss, parents, psychiatry, security

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