The Silent Patient

by Alex Michaelides

‘It’s a shame you didn’t know her then. She was the most interesting person I’ve ever met. Most people aren’t alive, you know, not really – sleepwalking their way through life.

I’d rather be lonely than be with the wrong person.

‘Like therapy, music is about a relationship, entirely dependent on the teacher you choose.’

Every Greek knows his tragedies. The tragedies are our myths, our history – our blood.’

The aim of therapy is not to correct the past, but to enable the patient to confront his own history, and to grieve over it.