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<i>I Never Promised You a Rose Garden</i> 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, Joanne Greenberg
- Language
- Released
- 1965
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €11.49
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- Title
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joanne Greenberg, Joanne Greenberg
- Publisher
- Signet
- Released
- 1965
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0451131363
- ISBN13
- 9780451131362
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Psychological Topics, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Medicine, 20th century, Coming Of Age, Mental Health, Mental Illness, 1960s
- Description
- <i>I Never Promised You a Rose Garden</i> 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