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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (original 1964; edition 1989)

by Joanne Greenberg

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Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.
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Title:I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Authors:Joanne Greenberg
Info:Signet (1989), Reissue, Paperback
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg (1964)

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"I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why, before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always comes at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.'"
"That patient... did he get well?"
"Yes, he got well. Then the Nazis came and they put him into Dachau and he died there." ( )
  Jon_Hansen | Jun 18, 2022 |
Deborah Blau is a 16-year-old Jewish girl living in a wealthy household with everything going for her, except for the fact that she’s schizophrenic and very, very ill indeed. So ill, in fact, that much as her parents want to deny the truth, they are eventually persuaded to send her to a private mental hospital for treatment. Once there, Deborah quickly escalates until she is sent to D Ward, where the most extreme crazies are locked up; and once *there*, she finally begins to heal, with the aid of a famous and deeply empathetic psychiatrist….This is a multiple-time re-read for me; I think with all the craziness going on in the real world these days, I just felt an urge to dive into an unreal crazy world for a respite. Although published in 1964 and set, I think, more in the late 1950s, the story holds up very well some 56 years later. The imagery, both in terms of how the D Ward is portrayed and the very poetic fantasy world of Yr that Deborah inhabits, still feels very credible and true, and the characters of inmates and staff also ring true. This is one of my all-time favourite books about madness, and well worth searching out if it’s still in print; recommended. ( )
  thefirstalicat | Nov 8, 2020 |
I read this book many many years ago when I was in jr. High school, the impact of it has stayed with me all these years, I am 56 yrs old now. A very powerful, insightful look into mental illness and the perception and understanding it takes to treat it successfully. ( )
  lori6868 | Oct 24, 2020 |
One of the smartest and absorbing books I've ever read. Mental illness is described so accurately and intensely that it was at times difficult or even scary for me to read this, as if I could fall into that perspective. Its style blends elements of genius and schizophrenic thoughts in such a way that they are at times inseparable. ( )
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They rode through the lush farm country in the middle of autumn, through quaint old towns whose streets showed the brilliant colors of turning trees.
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Deborah lachte. "Ärzte! Verbringen Sie ein herrliches Jahr mit Reisen in fremde Länder! Besuchen Sie Ihr Irrenhaus als Patient!"
Carla lachte. "Reisen Sie ohne Ihr Prestige, Ihre bürgerlichen Rechte oder Ihre Selbstachtung! Erschauern Sie vor dem verlogenen Schön-Schön, wenn Sie auf der anderen Seite des Zauns stehen!"
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Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.

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Het paradijs dat niet beloofd werd, is de wereld waarin dokter Fried haar patiënte, Deborah Blau, hoo;" terug te brengen.
Hannah Green poogt in dit boek ek schizofrenie. altijd beschouwd als eer der ergste vormen van w.rmzi.;. begrijpelijk te maken.
Zij beschrijft het uiterst moeizame gevecht van Deborah tussen de gewone wereld en liet 'koninkrijk V R'. ELH koninkrijk waar je je kunt koesteren. YR is behalve een prettige poëtisch» wereld ook een wereld met gruwelijke tegels, een eigen tijdrckcning ^r. een eigen taal.
Drie jaar duurt de strijd van dokter Fried tegen de heersers van YR. Dar. zegeviert in het meisje Deborah de vrije wil om 10 breken niet dt machten uit haar waanwereld en wordt zij weer baa-over zichzelf.
Deze unieke beschrijving van dit schizofrene meisje heeft in korte tijd talloze mensen geboeid. Een onthullend boek over de geesteszieke mens. Dit verhelderende boek werd verfilmd niet Bibi Andersson en Kathleen Quinlan in de hoofdrollen.
Hannah Green (1932), pseudoniem van Joanne Greenberg, woont hoog in de Rocky Mountains in een huis, dat zij zelf boitwdi samen met haar man. In haar jeugd leed z: zelf aan een ernstige, geestesziekte, en alleer, dank zij haar enorme doorzettingsvermogen en de goede begeleiding van haar psythiairi vocht zij zich door deze periode heen. Ik heb j e nooit een Rozentuin beloutd ï. een neerslag van haar eigen ervaringet; tijdens haar ziekte. In al haar boeken kom: haar begrip tot uiting voor minderheden. 'abnormalen', mensen die in hun gedrag en opvattingen aj'wijken van wat wij als normaal beschouwen.
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