I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Patient Deborah Blake appears to hallucinate a primitive man visually and auditorily. Related hallucinations recur throughout the film. (0:04)

A nurse shows Deborah to her room in the psychiatric hospital.
Deborah hears command hallucinations. (0:05)

Her roommate Carla tells Deborah, "Don’t worry..." (0:06)

Deborah answers a student nurse, "... Suicide."
Nurse: ”How many times have you tried to kill yourself?” (0:08)

Deborah answers Dr. Fried, "Sigmund Freud."
”They want to... take away my symptoms...”
”... they said dreamland... dreamland. I could tell them all something about dreamland.”
Fried: ”... those stupid idiots.” (0:09)

Deborah appears to cut her arm. (0:16)

Patient Lee tells Deborah, "Now I'm a psychotic like you. Hey, I heard you cut up your arm real good with that tin can..."
Referring to attendant Hobbs: ”... he’s just another... psychotic, honey.” (0:17)

Patients in hospital day room. A patient tells Deborah, "Take your morphine."
Lee, referring to another patient: ”... she’s a... psychotic.” (0:19)

Deborah and another patient in restraints. (0:26)

Patients lined up as nurses give them medication.
Attendant McPherson: ”... Hobbs. Get a sedative...” (0:28)

Deborah tells Carla, "I tried to hang myself."
Carla: ”My mother shot me, and my brother and herself. They all died except me.” (0:29)

Fried tells Deborah, "Let’s talk about the time you tried to kill yourself... you had cut your wrist... Seems to me that moment was a cry for help... I think I’m going crazy." (0:35)

Patient Helene smacks another patient in the face. (0:40)

Carla, in restraints, talks to another patient in restraints.
The other patient tells Carla, ”... you must be crazier than me ‘cause it runs in your family or what your crazy mother left of it.” (0:41)

Hobbs smacks restrained patient Helene in the face repeatedly. (0:43)

Deborah tells Fried, referring to Hobbs, "... I was scared that he would hit me..." (0:44)

Attendant, referring to patient Miss Coral: "... she needs an injection."
Deborah tells Miss Coral, ”We have the right to be as crazy as anyone else.”
Miss Coral, as a nurse injects her arm: ”I’m higher than a kite already... I’ve been analyzed... shocked... Maybe I need a brain operation.”
”One of you goddamn idiots forgot to lock the door.” (0:46)

Hobbs tells Miss Coral, "Well, old nut..."
Hobbs removes her restraints.
Hobbs punches Miss Coral in the stomach. (0:49)

Hobbs: "Nuthouse case." (0:54)

Deborah repeatedly bangs her head on the floor. (0:58)

Deborah tells Fried, referring to her father Jay, "He was always warning me about the men, the sex maniacs... He hit me."
”I can be crazy if I want to. Bats.”
Fried: ”... what’s bats?”
Deborah: ”It means bats up in your head at night, and they fly around aimless without direction, you know?” (0:59)

Deborah tells her parents, "One can learn and learn and still be a schizo." (1:03)

Dr. Royston tells Deborah, referring to words, "... they seem to have entered the pattern of your unconscious."
Deborah: ”Don’t do brain surgery with a pickax.” (1:07)

Deborah asks another patient, "Can you read my thoughts?"
Deborah asks Carla, ”Can you read my thoughts?” (1:08)

Carla tells Deborah, "They want me to be an outpatient..." (1:09)

Deborah burns herself with a cigarette. (1:10)

Deborah, in restraints, tells Fried, “I hate myself.” (1:11)

Helen yells, "I’m insane. I’m insane. I’m insane. I’m insane, totally insane." (1:13)

Deborah tells Fried, "You can... write another paper on schizophrenia..."
Fried: ”... stay in a nuthouse for the rest of your life.” (1:14)

Deborah burns herself with a cigarette.
The nurse tells McPherson, ”She burned herself...”
McPherson: ”She burned herself?”
McPherson tells Deborah, ”Now you’re making me crazy...”
A nurse injects Deborah’s arm. (1:18)

Deborah tells Fried, "I learned a lot about how nuts behave..."
Fried reads Deborah’s written work: ”I fly through molecules, then cobwebs on my nightmare.” (1:24)