She is also a practicing inpatient psychiatrist. Dr. Montross’s previous book, Body of Work, was named an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times and one of The Washington Post’s best nonfiction books of 2007. She and her partner, the playwright Deborah Salem Smith, live in Rhode Island with their two young children. Her latest book is Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis.