Mount Misery: A Novel By Samuel Shem
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I’ve struggled to sink into it as deeply as I did House of God. Good story, but I expected it to mirror that one a bit . It feels just a little forced like the author realized HoG was a hit, so he needed a sequel, and this is what we got. HoG is a classic and should Mount Misery: A Novel I have never worked in psychology but after reading the original book House of God, I needed to continue reading the series and will read Mans 4th Best hospital after this. Truly shows horrors of residency in (from what I heard from actual residents) in a hyperbolic way, Mount Misery: A Novel Excellent writing Mount Misery: A Novel I think that this book is a pretty accurate description of psychiatry in the late 70's/early 80's which, is when Roy Basch would have been doing his psychiatric residency if following the timing of House of God. But for some unknown reason, Shem chose to set it in the Mount Misery: A Novel I loved the House of God, Shem's first novel, when it was first published. I grew up in a medical family and am never at a loss for words about the medical industry. Nor am I at a loss for words when it comes to the mental health field, either, having good Mount Misery: A Novel
This is a really interesting and funny book. You don't know what is coming next and it debates some difficult issues: is it natural to be a shrink? How can you survive so much emotional distress? At one point in the book there are a lot of deaths. The author has his own journey and he comes out not with what he expected however with something he finds worthy. Mount Misery: A Novel Great! Mount Misery: A Novel Mount Misery is an amazing look at the training of a psychiatrist in the first year of his residency. Shem makes very good points about what really works in psychiatry when anything will and what some doctors will do in pursuit of fame and awards rather than simple Mount Misery: A Novel Mount Misery starts out as a great parody of psychiatry's excesses, from drug pushing to diagnostic mania to Freudian psychoanalysis. First year resident Roy Basch gets multiple doses of brainwashing as he makes the rounds of Mount Misery, with each theoretical school Mount Misery: A Novel This book is a Catch 22 type of satire. The author is training to be a psychiatrist and he begins by thinking he can ride through his internship smoothly; however, he comes to recognize that the powerful people he meets are not benign. By turning things inside out, he Mount Misery: A Novel