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Joanne Greenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1932. Greenberg grew up during world war two. During troubled times to escape from the real world Greenberg made a world of her own. At her young age Greenbergs world was so realistic and peaceful to her that it beacme her escape and her prison. Greenberg was finally able to escape her world and rejoin the real world at age thirty-two. //I Never Promised You a Rose Garden// is a fictionalized version of Greenberg’s treatment and experience at Chestnut Lodge Hospital in Rockville, Maryland. At chesterfield she was in treatment with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann for psychoanalytic. The book takes place in the late 1940s and early 1950s. During this time Harry Stack Sullivan, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and Clara Thompson were establishing the basis for the interpersonal school of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. "I wrote [//I Never Promised You a Rose Garden//] as a way of describing mental illness without the romanticisation that it underwent in the sixties and seventies when people were taking LSD to simulate what they thought was a liberating experience. During those days, people often confused creativity with insanity. There is no creativity in madness; madness is the opposite of creativity, although people may be creative //in spite// of being mentally ill." - // Joanne Greenberg //

Psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapy used to treat patients who have a range of chronic life problems. It is related to a specific theorie. Psychoanalysis is done one-on-one with the patient and the analyst.
 * Psychoanalisis: What it is.**

=**Plot**= __I Never Promised You a Rose Garden__ stars in the family car where we meet Deborah Blau who is adimitted to a hospital for schitzophrenia. Deborah is 16 when she is first admitted to the hospital. Deborahs schitzophrenia first set in at a very young age after she had a tumor removed form her urethra. Deborah missed most of her early school years and being Jewish during World war Two did nothing to help deborah make friends.The other children mad fun of deborah for being diffrent and refused to be her friend because she was Jewish. Deborah instead of makeing friends created a whole nother world she calls Yr. Deboah first invented Yri during her first year of camp at about age seven. Yr was Deborahs escap from what she thought was a crule real world until Yr started to take over deborah completely. deborah was queen of Yr for a short time till she lost control to Anterrabae and Yr managed to turn Deborah into a walking talking robot. Anterrabae was the new ruler of Yr and deborah was completely under Anterrabae and the Collects control. The Collect made sure Deborah did not reveal any of Yr's secrets to the outside world. Dr.Fried works with Deborah most of the book to work away at the Control Yr has over Deborah. Yr has a strong hold over deborah so strong it can even Punish Deborah for revealing Secrets of Yr to Dr. Fried. Slowly Deborah gains more control over Yr and an understanding of the real world until Dr. Fried leaves for vacation. Deborah is forced to work with a new doctor who she calles Snake-Tooth. DR. Royson or Snake-Tooth dose not posses the same trust or comfort level with Deborah as Dr. Fried had. Deborah slowly slips back into Yrs strong hold while Dr. fried is gone. Dr.Fried returnes to find marks all over Deborah from cigarettes where Debora has tryed to burn herself. In a psychotic episode wrote words in Yr all over the bathroom most in her blood. Through more therapy Debirah realises that she is begining to trust her self and she has even started her own conduct code. Deborah continues to improve and finaly believes that as a little girl she never acctual tried to kill her little sister but implanted her own false memory. deborah continues to improve throught out the end of rest of the book. Are are wondering if she will ever be able to leave the hospital or leave the land of Yr forever? Rad the book to find out.

 **Recommendation** I would strongly recommend this book. I gives you an inside look at what its like inside a mental health facility and the patients. The book starts slow but picks but very quickly. Deborah's fight to free herself is remarkable. This book gives you an inside look at what a struggle it is to free yourself from something as strong as a second world and just how strong your mind really is. I would give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

 **Outstanding book** __I Never Promised You A Rose Garden__ is an outstanding book because it gives you an inside look into the struggles of a sixteen year olds struggle for her sanity. It shows how Deborah thought about the real world and how she reacted to different situations. It gives us a different perspective into our world and how its viewed by someone with schizophrenia. It shows us just how powerful our minds really can be if we let it.

 ** Theme **  Anything is possible if you believe  survival of the fittest  ** Literary information **

 __I Never Promised You A Rose Garden__ is a semi-autobiography  The point of view is 1 st person  the writing style is novel

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