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![]() The book’s setting in Rockville over the decades lends to the feeling of time passing as both lives unfurl. ![]() Told via interwoven narration, the tale becomes a threaded fabric of voices as the characters - affected by apprehension, history, and political events - emerge from the page to embed in the reader’s own imagination. Frieda and adopted by Eliza, who, in her own work, encounters challenges eerily similar and equally complex. The story is fertilized by the wisdom of the late Dr. ![]() The moving tale of these two women as they struggle with life, love, and the care of troubled patients becomes a journey shared over decades. A diary written by the psychiatrist and discovered by Eliza becomes the medium through which their lives overlap. ![]() Frieda” on the grounds of Chestnut Lodge, although the sanitorium next door is now abandoned. Eliza Kline is a fictional psychologist who - 50 years later - finds herself with her 14-year-old son renting the custom-built home of “Dr. In her novel Frieda’s Song, Ellen Prentiss Campbell draws concentric and sometimes intersecting Venn circles of narrative around the lives of two women, one historical, one fictional, as the themes of their lives intersect.įrieda Fromm-Reichmann was a famed, real-life psychiatrist who fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and practiced her innovative treatment of schizophrenic patients at Chestnut Lodge Sanitorium in Rockville, Maryland, for 22 years. ![]()
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