Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Patient by Jasper DeWitt

12 reviews

soniaa5's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Death and Medical trauma

melllephant's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Minor: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Blood, Medical content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Torture, Bullying, Animal death, and Chronic illness

madalina0_0's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Murder, Sexism, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Cursing

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

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

coffeeandnonsense's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Rape, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

thetruthatallhazards's review against another edition

fast-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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Vomit, and Self harm

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

dalmavatai's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Wow, this one really took me by surprise! I read Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke a while back and I really didn't enjoy it so I thought maybe short horror just wasn't my thing (granted, one book is not really valid proof of that). 

I think maybe I don't enjoy overly gruesome or extremely dark horror, but this one was neither in my opinion. It was fast-paced and very engaging, it kept my interest all the way through. I love following psychiatrists and I like storylines about a case that no one can diagnose and where no one knows what's going on. The reveal in this one was so good, I really liked how all the puzzle pieces came together at the end. I also liked the conclusion of the story because it didn't get all doom-and-gloom, but obviously it wasn't a happy ever after either. 

This was a really great read that I highly recommend to everyone who likes thrillers/horrors involving a psychiatrist POV and a seemingly unsolvable disorder with a touch of the supernatural. It didn't get very gruesome, dark, or terrifying so I think this is a good one for those who usually read mystery/thrillers but want to foray into the horror genre. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, and Violence