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Good Shrink/Bad Shrink
Some of the most illustrious minds in psychiatry and psychology once applied their talents and skills to develop abusive mind control methodologies for their countries. These programs were designed to render their victims compliant, to behave in ways that covert agencies could exploit.
Psychiatric resident Eve Gilchrist encounters a puzzling patient whose flashbacks suggest that the life he thought he remembered was an artefact of brainwashing. Consultant Ben Jordan, experienced with both psychoanalysis and hypnosis, discovers that the man is still being trained and monitored by the Project, a shadowy group that applies officially-condemned mind control technologies for profit in the private sector. Project operatives, including some of Jordan’s faculty colleagues, mobilize to reclaim their trainee, undermine Jordan’s credibility, and neutralize both Jordan and Gilchrist to preserve the secrecy of their efforts. Jordan and Gilchrist, a quick learner, utilize clinical knowledge and research findings to escape efforts to torture and liquidate them, and to distinguish fact from fiction in the patient’s accounts. The patient returns to his actual home in a fugue state. Jordan and his unlikely allies must battle the Project’s operatives while Jordan risks his life to locate the patient and undo the Project’s grip upon his mind.
Psychiatric resident Eve Gilchrist encounters a puzzling patient whose flashbacks suggest that the life he thought he remembered was an artefact of brainwashing. Consultant Ben Jordan, experienced with both psychoanalysis and hypnosis, discovers that the man is still being trained and monitored by the Project, a shadowy group that applies officially-condemned mind control technologies for profit in the private sector. Project operatives, including some of Jordan’s faculty colleagues, mobilize to reclaim their trainee, undermine Jordan’s credibility, and neutralize both Jordan and Gilchrist to preserve the secrecy of their efforts. Jordan and Gilchrist, a quick learner, utilize clinical knowledge and research findings to escape efforts to torture and liquidate them, and to distinguish fact from fiction in the patient’s accounts. The patient returns to his actual home in a fugue state. Jordan and his unlikely allies must battle the Project’s operatives while Jordan risks his life to locate the patient and undo the Project’s grip upon his mind.
- GenresFiction
436 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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October 26, 2015
I will be honest. I couldn't wait till this book is over. And I mean it in a bad way. The idea was good but the execution of the story really poor. Too many characters, too many descriptions, too much jumping from one person to another. There were moments I didn't know who said what. Or what had just happened and I had to read the page again. the story was too twisted and confusing. Good shrink, bad shrink. Good book, bad book...
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