The Education of Mrs. Bemis
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The novel is about an elderly woman who falls into a major depression; she’s first found in a Boston department store curled up on a 4-poster bed, seemingly catatonic, in the fetal position. A young female psychiatrist from a renowned Boston-area mental hospital finds her, takes her as a patient, and then takes a risk by treating her in a more humanistic fashion that the usual prescription medication approach. They become friends, learn from each other, and each of them makes important emotional discoveries which boost the psychiatrist’s professional and personal understanding and leads to Mrs. Bemis’ cure.
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Submitted on: 28-Mar-2003
