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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
nightmarish insight into an asylum,
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This review is from: Under Observation (Paperback)
Hanson and Messick have done a fine job of translating these two linked novels about a woman artist at the turn of the century and the destructiveness of the mental health care system that is supposedly there to help her. The basic premise is simple: put a stressed-out but fundamentally sane person in an oppressive and prison-like asylum and it will drive her to the brink of madness and possibly beyond. Skram is the Scandinavian master of Naturalism, and her descriptions of the mentally disturbed are chilling, the doctors downright terrifying!
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Under Observation by Amalie Skram (Paperback - January 1, 1992)
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