- Schizophrenie, Psychiatrie, Children's fiction, Mental illness, fiction
**Psychological novel based on the author's experience of schizophrenia.** A sixteen-year-old girl is committed to a mental hospital when she retreats into a disturbing fantasy world. This is the story of her 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 destroy that world of fantasy.**
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Grave, earnest, intimate and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Hannah Green
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 236
- Publisher
- Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Pan Books, Pan
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780330285490
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