The Quiet Room Book Review

The quiet room held special fascination for me because i was one of he mental health workers on lori s unit who participated in her restraints.

The quiet room book review.

The quiet room held special fascination for me because i was one of he mental health workers on lori s unit who participated in her restraints. I remember her well and fondly. Though even as a first hand witness to her sufferings at the hospital her book revealed so many more dimensions of her experience that were entirely invisible yet. The quiet room is the story of lori schiller a young jewish woman who suffers from schizophrenia and her attempts to cope with the disease.

A journey out of the torment of madness grants its readers a fleeting vivid glimpse into the reality of living with a serious mental illness. I remember her well and fondly. Most people who review the book seem to love it. The quiet room book.

At seventeen lori schiller was the perfect child the only daught. Lori schiller s memoir the quiet room. With jamal douglas barkley harper stephanie kerbis brian mccook. A journey out of the torment of madness is a 1994 memoir that chronicles the years long struggle of lori schilling a bright promising high achieving jewish woman born to affluent parents and afflicted with schizophrenia ultimately schilling will emerge triumphant from her journey which includes many stints both voluntarily and involuntarily in mental hospitals.

Ever since its booker nomination it made the shortlist room by irish writer emma donoghue has set the literary world on fire. When michael s attempt at suicide awakens a psych ward demon he must stop her before she kills everyone in the hospital. Read 361 reviews from the world s largest community for readers. Though even as a first hand witness to her sufferings at the hospital her book revealed so many more dimensions of her experience that were entirely invisible yet.