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Title: Savage Sleep by Millen Brand ISBN: 9-9975030-3-1 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Pub. Date: June, 1968 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $10.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
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Comment: Savage Sleep fictionally enters the mind, heart, and experience of a great psychiatrist, Dr. John Marks. It tells with luminous intensity the story of three crucial years that began when he looked into the frightened eyes of Jimmy, dying of acute catatonic excitement, whose case and ultimate cure set the doctor off on his own pioneering career. Later, after a dramatic deepening of understanding, he undertakes what becomes a nine months life and death struggle with Mara, an almost mute schizophrenic patient. He takes her into his home, fights for her terrified sould, and wins basic insights that put him at the head of his profession.

In this great canvas of behind the scenes life in a state hospital and in a center of psychiatric research and teaching, one becomes so involved that he cannot help, but burn with indignation at public and private apathy. Against staff indifference, Dr. Marks develops his own illuminating concern and love. The account of his work makes Savage Sleep one of the most penetrating novels ever written about the human mind, but particularly the healing of the savage sleep of psychosis.

Rating: 5
Summary: You won't soon forget Savage Sleep
Comment: Set in 1943, Millen Brand's Savage Sleep tells the story of a recently graduated psychiatrist (Dr. Marks) who mixes Freudean psychoanalysis with standard psychiatric treatment (electric or insulin shock). We come to know and care for severely disturbed patients, who come alive in narrative and dialog. Dr. Marks' unorthodox, though successful treatment of his patients leads to tension with the medical community, and ultimately to some unexpected decisions by Dr. Marks.