Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek

3 reviews

shaylaeliz's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

Moderate: Gun violence, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Child death

aaaugello's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicide, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Murder, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug use

Minor: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Stalking

vigil's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

extremely thorough and informative. it’s a great entrance into the world of forensic pathology for people who wish to enter the medical field (like me), or for anyone just plain interested. 

it’s definitely not for the lighthearted, Melinek described her work in visceral detail thar truly conveys exactly what had occurred.

i docked half a point off due to the author’s treatment of suicide. her own father killed himself when she was thirteen, which understandably colored her perception of it. but her low empathy or compassion for the suicidal, ranging from calling them delusional to downright selfish is ugly in a regular person, but willfully ignorant and harmful in a medical professional.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Violence, and Vomit