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Summary: This book really takes you into the eyes of a sick person.
Review: My mother gave me this book that she had found in our basement, and told me to read it because it's very good. I loved it! My mother's a counselor and she deals with children and adults that have this mental illness. Out of all that she tells me on how those people act this book really portays a good image of how people with an illness act,how they think,and how they are or were treated.
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Summary: An excellent book on mental illness - the cause and effects
Review: Its an amazing book ! a book that gives a totally different perspective on the illness, the reasons and the magnitude of it and it makes a poignant plea for understanding. It was a moving experience to find the patient struggle and get well again...If u are interested in psychology, psychiatry and mental illnesses this is a must read.. Its dark and disturbing at times and requires a certain interest in the area....
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Summary: excellent!
Review: in this book you may journey to the back of your mind, and start to see everything differently. apon reading it i started to have my own narrator/evaluator in my head that would explain/question everything i see in juch great detail. it was wonderfull. my mind has been so pre-occupied with other things that i almost lost it. now that its back, i can write better, and my vocabulary seems to have expananded a substantial amount.
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Summary: I did not enjoy reading this book.
Review: When I first picked the book in the library it looked very interesting. But, then I started reading it and changed my opinion. First of all, the story starts out at the family's house, but then the girl starts getting her mental problems in her head about this place called Year. And that's when the story gets very confusing. It makes you crazy. Later in the story she goes into a mental hospital. I thought that part was interesting because they told you about it and the psychiatrist. Personally, I would not recommend this book to be read. Unless you are the type of person that can really understand someone's mental and emotional problems.
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Summary: There is No Creativity in Madness
Review: I wrote this book as a way of describing mental illness without the romanticisation that it underwent in the sixties and seventies when people were taking LSD to simulate what they thought was a liberating experience. During those days, people often confused creativity with insanity. There is no creativity in madness; madness is the opposite of creativity, although people may be creative IN SPITE of being mentally ill. I also wanted to steer away from melodrama, and to deal with the stigma of mental illness, but not to concentrate on it.
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Summary: An excellent depiction of the logic of madness
Review: Sane people generally don't understand the insane. It's not that the things the insane ones say don't make sense, it's that the listener isn't getting all of the conversation. This book does an excellent job of showing us everything that's going on.
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Summary: A truely inspiring story about life.
Review: I not only foung this account of a young girls struggle back into reality haunting but enthrawling. This book showed me that life is struggle but it does have many rewards. This book is inspriring and I loved it. A must read for those disturbed or not.
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Summary: There is no creativity in madness.
Review: I wrote this book as a way of describing mental illness without the romanticisation that it underwent in the sixties and seventies when people were Taking LSD to stimulate what they thought was a liberating experience. During those days people often confused creativity with insanity. There is no creativity in madness; madness is the opposite of creativity, although people may be creative in spite of being mentally ill. I also wanted to steer away from melodrama, and to deal with the stigma of mental illness, but not to concentrate on it.
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Summary: Beautiful, haunting novel
Review: A beautifully written, haunting account of a young girl's confinement in a mental institution and her struggle to overcome mental illness, presumably schizophrenia. Written in the early 1960's, the book is terribly archaic in its understanding of schizophrenia, but Greenburg's prose is so bewitching and her protagonist so fascinating, that it is easy to forgive some of her misconceptions about mental illness. her construction of the main character's alternate reality is particularly brilliant, and i found the book more enjoyable when read almost as a fantasy rather than a medical case history. All in all, a powerful, albeit occasionally tedious, work of literature.
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Summary: A look inside the darkest part of us all
Review: A compelling story that shows the gap that separates the mentally ill from the real world and the thread that binds them, and us, together. As one that feels the way Deborah does occasionally, it's satisfying to know that yes, you are normal, even if it is in abnormality. This book is for anyone that wants to understand others, and themselves.
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