The Training Patient

A Novel
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78220-220-2
Verlag: Karnac Books

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: The Karnac Library

Gail May, a trainee therapist is seeing her first patient, that all all-important person on whose case study her qualification depends. As a novice therapist Gail is cautious to adhere to all the therapeutic rules. But the problem is that her patient, an East European woman who believes she has a stalker, never speaks. Gail presumes these are the symptoms of paranoid delusion. It is 1993, there is a war in Yugoslavia and Gail wonders if there is a connection. Starved of information she begins to resort to progressively unorthodox means. As Gail's private life falls apart her interest in her patient intensifies, growing into an obsession. Then the lines between fiction and reality, between intrusion and therapy become dangerously confused, setting off a chain of events that impact both their lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fodorova, Anna

Über Autor(innen)

Fodorova, Anna
Anna Fodorova is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She originally trained as an illustrator and a filmmaker at the Royal College of Art and has worked as a senior lecturer at Central St. Martin's College of Art, London. She has made animated films for television programmes in both Germany and England, written live-action feature-length television scripts, and published children's fiction.