Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Patient by Jasper DeWitt

11 reviews

the_harlequin's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Confinement, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Animal death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Gore

feraltail's review

dark medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The beginning of this had some promise, it does feel like “a debut novel” but that doesn’t really bother me, we all gotta start somewhere. I think this book does a pretty decent job describing how a lot of (maybe not so many places now w/ modernization) mental health institutions and patients do not receive the help they need. I resonated with that. But 
i cannot write a full review for this novel without spoiling it. that’s how much the last quarter of this book made me mad. mad and confusing at every single decision made for the characters and the plot?? you had a mildly compelling mystery going and THAT is what you’re ending with? I— 👎🏻 There is a confusing lack of barely any foreshadowing to this ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Excrement, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, and Mental illness

why the fuck did this book try to have a happy ending? the last 20-25 pages of this took me out. a horror novel that throws around sexual violence, assault, rape, for the sake of so casually all to have a sappy “and they all lived on in slight traumatized but happy peace! the end” is…confusing to me.

ggcd1981's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Em uma série de postagens on-line, Parker H., um jovem psiquiatra, narra o relato angustiante de seu tempo trabalhando em um decrepito hospital psiquiátrico em New England. Através de um fórum de mensagens na Internet, Parker espera comunicar ao mundo o seu esforço para curar um paciente desconcertante. O jovem médico em seu primeiro dia no hospital ficou sabendo sobre o caso mais difícil e profundamente perigoso da instalação: um homem de quarenta anos que foi originalmente internado no hospital aos seis anos. Este paciente não tem diagnóstico conhecido. Seus sintomas parecem evoluir com o tempo. Cada pessoa que tentou tratá-lo foi levada à loucura ou ao suicídio. Desesperados e com medo, os diretores do hospital mantêm-no estritamente confinado e permitem um contato mínimo com o pessoal para sua própria segurança, convencidos de que libertá-lo desencadearia uma catástrofe no mundo exterior. Parker, brilhante e confiante demais, decide descobrir o que aflige esse paciente misterioso e finalmente curá-lo. Mas a partir do seu primeiro encontro com o paciente misterioso, as coisas fogem ao controle e, ele se vê diante de uma possibilidade além de sua imaginação. 

The patient é um livro que gostei bastante. Ele é atmosférico e misterioso com o cenário tenso de um asilo decrepito.

Houveram poucos pontos baixos no livro, como por exemplo quando Parker começa a se comunicar com o paciente misterioso e este se mostra um homem coerente e inteligente. Nessa parte o paciente tenta com sucesso convencer o jovem doutor, e o leitor, de que seu caso é uma conspiração para que o hospital se mantenha ganhando o dinheiro por sua internação e seus pais, por sua vez, se vejam livre da vergonha que ele é. Nessa parte achei que a trama tinha assumido uma natureza humana e mundana e meu interesse diminuiu em consequência. Felizmente isso foi apenas um truque do paciente e descobre-se que ele era algo que não era humano e a verdadeira criança que foi originalmente atendida no hospital estava a muito tempo morta e sepultada na parede do quarto na casa de seus pais ricos. The Patient foi um livro que me deu o tipo de terror que realmente considero interessante. Algo inumano que não pode ser explicado ou convencido, não tem senso moral e não pode ser completamente destruído. O final foi sinistro com a descoberta do corpo do garoto, com o confronto entre Parker e o “paciente”, com a descoberta de que este último era na verdade uma criatura que se alimentava do medo e angustia do hospital há décadas e com a resultante fuga dessa criatura para o mundo exterior. Foi uma conclusão interessante a ideia de que aquele mal inexplicável estava solto no mundo e os posts do médico no fórum eram uma espécie de aviso ao que poderia existir por aí no mundo.

O clima do livro foi muito bom, a história muito interessante e me manteve intrigada até o fim. Dou 4.75 estrelas. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Abandonment, Death, Emotional abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Confinement, Medical content, Grief, Rape, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Child abuse

ecandrews0's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Sexual assault, Suicide, Death, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

readwithbells's review against another edition

4.0

This book was fast-paced and compelling in its internet message structure, and had a mystery that was very fun to unravel even if you could see where it was going. It was also quite disturbing and left me with a very deep-seated feeling of unease. I was actually quite shaken upon finishing this book. 

I think if I thought more about the implications of the entity and the story’s ending itself, I might have some more complicated feelings about the story and its discussion of mental illness, but I think the author did his best to approach mental illness and psychiatric wards with an empathetic eye and in the end,

just because some of the kids might be actual monsters doesn’t preclude them from treatment

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Fun for what it was! Definitely unsettling, definitely creepy, certainly earns its title of horror. I went into this expecting absolutely nothing and was pleasantly surprised. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Medical content, Rape, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicide attempt

ariel_wolf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

It started out okay but the twist was very weird and really out there. Definitely didn't see that coming but it wasn't in a fun way. It was kinda dumb honestly in my opinion but it just kinda came out of left field. 
The twist was kinda uncomfortable since we are following the story of a new doctor and his patient at an asylum in the early 2000s. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal death, Child abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Death, Blood, Ableism, Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Suicide, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

reneebkreviews's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Bullying, Confinement, Death of parent, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Forced institutionalization, and Self harm

the_escapist's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Rape

Minor: Pedophilia and Incest

madarauchiha's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

  ❤️ 🧡 💛  💚  💙 💜  my about info carrd: uchiha-madara 💜  💙 💚 💛 🧡❤️ 

Oh boy. I can't tell if it reflect poorly on me or the author when I recognized this book as pretty much reddit nosleep form levels of quality. And you know what? The author confirms that it is basically a cleaned up copy of something posted to the nosleep form.

"Finally, thank you to every Reddit user who up-voted this story when it made its debut in December of 2015. Without you, The Patient would never have been finished. Without you, it would not be where it is today. Without you, I would be a different man. From the bottom of my heart, thank you."

It was... ok. It was creepy, it was competent, there was in fact some levels of horror. Albeit gross out gore horror. It could use some polish, theres something interesting here. but otherwise, it's unexceptional.

The psychiatric institutions sure is accurate on how fucking incompetent the entire mental illness industry is. The psychiatry parts, as others mentioned, are incredibly weak and inaccurate. The book makes a game of how far you can suspend any disbelief or maintain any good humor towards the plot. The parts about paranoid schizophrenia and DID [dissociative identity disorder] are ableist, evil, and cruel to be portrayed like this. It genuinely undermined the entire story.

I don't care to read anything else by this author after reading this.

content warnings:
minor gun violence, suicide, police brutality, 
animal hunting

medium child abuse, self harm, antisemitism, slurs, injuries, bone fractures, child death, incest, csa, pedophilia, rape, sexual violence, suicide, self harm, sharps, 

major psychiatric institutions, ableism, ableism towards paranoid schizophrenia, blood, unsanitary, domestic abuse, child abuse, torture, medium animal cruelty, animal death, gore, blood, incest, csa, pedophilia, ableism towards DID, mental illness

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Incest, Medical content, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Antisemitism, Child abuse, Child death, Incest, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Gun violence, Police brutality, and Suicide

maddmadds's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is a quick read and will keep you captivated from the first page. If you get scared easily though, it may not be for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Sexual assault