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Violence
Barely any
Psychiatric violence; period treatment of the insane
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The horror and tragedy of mental illness before modern psychiatry
What this book is about
Faulks's 2005 novel follows Thomas Midwinter and Jacques Rebiere from medical school through the founding of an Austrian sanatorium and into the psychiatric understanding of the early 20th century. A meditation on consciousness, psychiatry, and friendship. For adults.
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Psychiatric content
Period treatment of mental illness
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