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A patient delegates his unacceptable feelings to his therapist and she holds everything he is afraid to feel, and she feels it for him. But Theo’s explanations of how trauma starts, what causes psychological defects in people and mechanics of psychotherapy tickled my curiosity.īut that’s how therapy works. Psychology is one of the sciences that never really interested me much.And after each chapter, I had a new theory: who did it and why. These two narratives were interwoven masterfully to keep you in a constant state of suspense. The present events are narrated in the first person by Theo. Since Alicia is currently silent, her view is presented through journal snippets dated before the murder. The narration switches between Theo and Alicia. Her silence was like a mirror – reflecting yourself back at you. But the large part of the novel is about Theo Faber, her psychotherapist.īut that’s what Alicia did for you.
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I expected that The Silent Patient will be focused only on Alicia. But Alex Michaelides weaves a web of details around the story that makes it arresting and intriguing. Whether the reasons are known or not, this does not sound like something especially news-worthy. Why would a woman refuse to speak after murdering her husband? What Did I Like? The Silent Patient caught my attention because it was number one on Goodread’s list of most popular books published in 2019. Published by Celadon Books, Macmillan Publishersįirst sentence: Alicia Berenson was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband.