Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

The Patient by Jasper DeWitt

22 reviews

shadoz's review

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.0

This book had immense potential. And then it absolutely shit the bed. I hated the ending found it quite ridiculous actually. Loved it so much up until the last few chapters. Beyond disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Rape, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

coco78337's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Abandonment, Body horror, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Incest

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

louisallama's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Rape, and Mental illness

goblinghost_39's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Sexual assault, Mental illness, Child abuse, Excrement, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Suicide

sneakers6772's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Rape, and Self harm

johoha93's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Self harm, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Child death

katiebella_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

5 ⭐️.                          a 10/10 
A psychological thriller or a nightmaric fever dream. From one moment to the next, the reader is hung is suspense and is never quite sure what is really going on. This book is highly underrated and overlooked! Honing in on the same feelings as reading a Poe short story, this author does a suburb job of capturing the horror of true evil.

Dr H. is a new young psychiatrist, newly assigned to a mental ward. with the zeal of the young he offers to take on the incurable patient "Joe." Joe has a bad rap of being a danger to those around him. The first few chapters are an ominous build-up of why everyone is kept away from him. Everyone who comes in contact seems to commit suicide.
 Dr. H becomes obsessed with diagnosing him, convinced that he will find something that every Dr has missed in almost 30 years of incare treatment. But Dr. H is just smart enough to be a danger to himself as he begins to suspect everyone around him of gross negligence towards the patient. 

This book is told in first person, from the perspective of Dr. H, as he relays it to an online support group. The writing is suburb. The characters are so well drawn out that you feel like you know them personally. The graphic description of events leaves little to be desired. I found nothing wanting or lacking in this book.

******trigger warning - child rape, child abuse, child death.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Rape, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Child death, Cursing, Mental illness, and Pedophilia

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