The Training Patient

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 Eastern European woman who believes she has a stalker, hardly ever 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.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Fodorova
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2015
• EAN: 9781782202202
• ISBN: 978-1-78220-220-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: The Karnac Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)