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Deborah.
. . Umarım başarmışsındır, Joanne Greenberg aka Hannah Green published her semiautobiographical novel inbut it looks back to thes and the period directly post WWthat she spent incarcerated in a private mental health facility.
Here Greenberg becomesyearold Deborah Blau locked in her elaborate fantasy world the Kingdom of Yr, periodically resurfacing in the real world only to find it filled with terror, both outer and inner.
At the hospital she becomes the patient of Dr Fried, someone who understands the realities Deborahs grappling with, both are Jewish, both have encountered vicious, destabilising forms of antiSemitism, in Frieds case leading to a perilous escape from her home in Nazi Germany.
Greenbergs style can be a little ponderous, dense and mannered, sometimes slipping into melodrama, but its still a compelling, thoughtprovoking piece.
And, in many ways, a surprising one because its not totally focused on one individuals mental processes or their direct experience of institutionalisation.
Although Deborahs obviously central, Greenberg brings in other perspectives, unusual in a narrative of this kind from this era.
So, alongside Deborahs viewpoint are those of her parents, sister, doctors and nurses,

It's a meticulously detailed, convincing portrait of the treatment of patients deemed “mentally unfit”, in Deborahs case her auditory and visual hallucinations earn her the label of schizophrenia, but its also a gripping portrayal of mainstream, American culture in thes.
In this scenario its clear that the socalled “normal” society is itself a strange and dangerous place, not least in the hypocrisy of a nation caught up in the myth of fighting for the good against Hitlers regime while riddled with discrimination and segregation when it came to Americas own Jewish communities.
Deborahs family and her experiences are a potent reminder of the prejudice and hatred too often directed at Jewish immigrant families and their descendants.
And Greenbergs narrative is intent on blurring any conventional boundaries between the “sick” and the “well”,

But when it comes to attitudes and approaches taken to mental health, Greenbergs story also contradicts casual assumptions about linear progress.
Unlike Antonia White in Beyond the Glass or Elizabeth Taylor threatened with lobotomy in Suddenly Last Summer or Olivia de Haviland in The Snake Pit confronted with the “freakishness” of what she might become if she doesnt succumb to brutal, shock therapy, theres no danger of Greenbergs novel being read as a kind of horror/cautionary tale about our murky past.
Yes, there are practices here that now seem barbaric but theres also an enviable focus on each patients needs as a whole person, as well as an awareness of the role that money, or lack of

it, plays.
Its a stark contrast to the presentday emphasis on quick fix, better living through chemistry, and the tendency to place responsibility for coping with the worlds uncertainties on the individual, instead Dr Fried concentrates on talk therapy, time, and on bonding with Deborah.
Frieds stance highlights the complex interactions between an individual, their society and their cultural context, which for Deborah also includes rigid expectations linked to her gender and stifling notions of the appropriately feminine.


The character of Dr Frieds a thinlyveiled version of Greenbergs actual psychiatrist Dr Frieda FrommReichmann, a refugee from preWWGermany.
FrommReichmanns stature in her field made Greenbergs book of particular interest to mental health professionals, not least because of its controversial claim of someone recovering from a supposedlyincurable condition without surgical, or other extensive medical interventions.
Its hard to work out how appropriate that kind of criticism is, especially since schizophrenia at the time was essentially a garbage term applied to a broad range of behaviours and symptoms.
But Greenberg herself has lived for many years now without any recurrence of her hallucinations, so its clear that Frieds approach worked for her.
This Penguin edition comes with a foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang and an afterword by the author,

Thanks to Netgalley and publisher Penguin Modern Classics for an ARC I read this for a Developmental Psychopathology class and ended up really enjoying it.
The purpose of the assignment was to examine the state of the science on schizophrenia both at the time of publicationand today, and the ways in which the public's views of schizophrenia may have been shaped through reading this novel.


Today as in thes, mental illness carries a highly negative social stigma, Greenberg presents a humanized view of mental illness with a focus on the painful experience of a young girl and her family living with schizophrenia.
In an effort to deal with the harsh realities of a word that has often treated her cruelly, Deborah creates an imagined kingdom that becomes her safe haven.
Her parents are caring, but struggle with the shame of their little girl's illness, Her psychotherapist is patient and insightful, never pushing Deborah to reveal more than she is ready, Though many of the treatment methods are outdated, there is insight to be gained from the skillful and empathetic therapy Deborah received.
Overall, it's a great personal story of the experience of living with mental illness, As someone who feels like they deal with mental illness on a daily basis, it was hard for me to enter the mind of someone with schizophrenia.
I just couldnt deal with the concept, It was well written but just not for me at this time, I picked up this book in a nifty secondhand bookshop as I was leaving Malvern, and as it is centred around a woman with a mental illness, and in this case, schizophrenia, I just couldn't resist buying it.
I've always had an interest in mental illness, which over the years, has lead to a fascination, and I love gathering different experiences and perspectives on it.


The story is about Deborah, a young girl who is finishing high school in a couple of years, but after slitting her wrists, she is taken to a mental institution.
These institutions are not like we know them to be today, in fact, they are quite different,

Treatments then such as putting an individual in seclusion, or wrapping them in cold ice sheets were considered excellent forms of treatment for patients suffering with a mental illness.
Green describes these situations with care, but it is outdated, Obviously today, cold sheet wrapping is not an effective treatment, and many other medicines and various treatments are available now.


I also noticed that Deborah's parents fail to have a role in this story, and when they do, I get the impression that the author has stuck to stereotypes, and the parents are somehow to blame for their daughters health decline.
I found this irritating, as from my perspective, you can have the most wonderful, cleancut parents in the world, but unfortunately, this doesn't mean you won't develop schizophrenia at some point in your life.


I'm no stranger to mental health battles, and I know that a loving, caring family would suffer immensely watching their child live with schizophrenia, but Green portrays the parents as just people standing on the sideline, strangers almost, with no feelings about it all.


I found this book interesting, and I'm happy to have read it, but the characters, apart from Deborah herself, of course, let the book down, and had an impact on my overall enjoyment.



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