Home for the Bewildered - Book Review

 

Home for the Bewildered
by Michelle Tobin

As much as she tries to, Dorothy finds it difficult to separate her personal struggles from her patients' experiences. How she dealt with such difficulty may resonate among other practitioners in the field of mental health.

Home for the Bewildered follows the struggles of Dr. Dorothy Morrissey, a psychologist at St. Lawrence Asylum. She handles a handful of patients whose issues somehow resonate with her own personal experiences. 

Born and raised a Catholic, Dorothy is torn between adhering to her family's strict conservative lifestyle and adopting to her Protestant boyfriend's outlook. Dorothy's struggles do not end here. She. must also deal with her family's dynamics. While people in the mental health discipline call her a doctor, her family does not acknowledge it as a real profession. Dorothy.also feels her patients' individual conditions reflect her personal struggles.

The Book and the Author

Michelle Tobin's Home for the Bewildered is not just a book to entertain. Rather, it speaks of the real struggles every other person must deal with. Reading materials such as this should be widely available to educate people about mental health. Depression, for example, is something that has to be addressed appropriately. Many people can be quick to judge others especially those who behave differently from them.

The book stresses the importance of moral support for those whose mental health is vulnerable. Based on the cases that Dr. Morrissey handles, patients don't think their parents are keen on listening to them. They believe that those closest to them misunderstand them the most.

On the technical side, I should say Tobin's storytelling is great. She presents real-life scenarios. However, she has the tendency to drag her story beyond what is necessary.

Overall, I give Home for the Bewildered a rating of 4 out of 5 stars and I recommend it to readers 16 years old and above 

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