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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity. 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 help herself. "I wrote this novel, which is a fictionalized autobiography, to give a picture of what being schizophrenic feels like and what can be accomplished with a trusting relationship between a gifted therapist and a willing patient. It is not a case history or study. I like to think it is a hymn to reality." —Joanne Greenberg
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Joanne Greenberg
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- Released
- 1964
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joanne Greenberg
- Publisher
- Signet
- Released
- 1964
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0451137477
- ISBN13
- 9780451137470
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, World Literature, True Stories, Biographies, Young Adult, Psychological Topics, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, USA, American Literature, Mental Health, America, Diseases, Based on True Events, Psychiatry, Experiences, Mental Illness, Schizophrenia, Psychiatric Hospitals, Psychiatrists
- First published
- 1964
- Original title
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity. 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 help herself. "I wrote this novel, which is a fictionalized autobiography, to give a picture of what being schizophrenic feels like and what can be accomplished with a trusting relationship between a gifted therapist and a willing patient. It is not a case history or study. I like to think it is a hymn to reality." —Joanne Greenberg