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Title: Promises to be a good book
Review: I read this book before in high school, before having any real knowledge of mental illness and found it terribly confusing. Reading it now as a psychology major in college was a totally different experience. This fictional story tells of Deborah, a young woman committed to a mental hospital in the 1950's. This was written before doctors knew of chemical imbalances, so Deb's schizophrenia is attributed to a traumatic childhood surgery and an over-bearing grandfather. It's fascinating to explore her secret world of Yr and the gods that inhabit it. Also interesting to see how earlier psychologists might have treated patients. Even though this book is outdated it is still a very good book on mental illness.
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