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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden () is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Two psychiatrists who examined the description of Blau in the book say that she was not schizophrenic, but rather suffered from extreme depression . I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel [Joanne Greenberg] on site. com. *FREE* shipping "This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story.

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Classic story of teen schizophrenic still engages. Read Common Sense Media's I Never Promised You a Rose Garden review, age rating, and. The impact I Never Promised You a Rose Garden made upon its release in The book sold slowly until around , when high schools and. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a semi-autobiographical account of a teenage girl's three-year battle with schizophrenia. Deborah Blau, bright and.

During that time many young people thought being depressed meant you were a good candidate to be a poet so if you wanted to be considered a poet, you needed to get "in touch" with your depressed self, often by using illegal psychotropic drugs such as LSD. Greenberg wrote the book to show the starkness of mental illness and that "there is no creativity in madness; madness is the opposite of creativity, although people may be creative in spite of being mentally ill. I found the book's emphasis on the relationship between Debra, the protagonist, and her doctor an excellent example of good psychotherapy. But, surprisingly, I find reading site's synopsis now to be exciting and find myself drawn to reread the book because of the theme implicit in the words, "battle against a world of her own creation. If the author's intent was to show the uncreative side of mental illness, I would have chosen a less imaginative and creative individual to portray. But there are other conflicts surrounding this book than those of the author's creation. Debra is portrayed as having schizophrenia. On one hand, the well-known psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey schizophrenia is an almost entirely physical disease and dismisses the suggestion that it might be amenable to traditional psychotherapy. On the other hand, the antipsychiatry psychiatrist Thomas Szasz doesn't believe in schizophrenia or any other mental illnesses at all. Meanwhile, we nonpsychiatrists are here living our lives, in the trenches so-to-speak, actually dealing with the life situations intellectually battled over by psychiatrists, over our heads. Can you tell I don't believe in most psychiatrists? Yet alas, they still exist.

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The parents' guide to what's in this book. Educational Value Shows readers what life was like in a mental institution in the s.

Discusses different kinds of mental illness. Positive Messages Deborah and the other patients make cutting comments and harass hospital attendants.

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Children bully Deborah and call her a "dirty Jew. She believes she's poisonous and will contaminate other people.

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Deborah and other former patients are ostracized by the community. Violence Deborah tries to commit suicide; a hospital attendant kills himself. The patients act violently, fighting with the staff and throwing beds or tables; one hits Deborah with a plate of food.

The patients are tied into a "pack," bound tightly with sheets so they cannot move. Deborah jokes that her "potential for callousness" qualifies her for a career as a "professional assassin. Sex Deborah's roommate believes she's the secret first wife of the King of England, who is being held in a House of Prostitution by his enemies. One doctor went so far as to state that Yri was not an actual language, but was a form of bastardized Armenian.

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Similar to what occurred in the novel, Greenberg was diagnosed with schizophrenia. At that time though, undifferentiated schizophrenia was often a vague diagnosis given to a patient or to medical records department for essentially non-medical reasons, which could have covered any number of mental illnesses from anxiety to depression.

Two psychiatrists who examined the description of Blau in the book say that she was not schizophrenic, but rather suffered from extreme depression and somatization disorder. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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The New York Times. April 16, She insisted to colleagues that Yri wasn't really a language, just "a poor set-up of some words that were similar to Armenian" that Greenberg had put together from having had Armenian friends.

Szalitza seemed irritated that Frieda ignored the fact that Joanne translated the same words differently on different days and showed other inconsistencies in her use of this so-called language minutes of staff meetings; Szalitza interview.