These Precious Conditions: A Doctor's Pilgrimage Through Motherhood and Grief

Ann Conn had spent her career studying the brain. Nothing she knew could prepare her for what happened to her own family.

When severe psychiatric illness struck both of her sons, Ann became simultaneously doctor and mother—tracking symptoms, searching for treatments, navigating a fragmented medical system, and desperately trying to keep her sons Austin and Colin alive. But the knowledge that had made her an expert could not tell her how to survive.

In These Precious Conditions, Conn brings t...