Descripción
A young psychiatrist takes charge of a strange and dangerous patient who has been institutionalized for more than twenty years.
In a series of posts on an internet forum, Parker, a young psychiatrist, recounts his time at a mental sanatorium and his experience with a very peculiar patient. A man between thirty and forty years old who was admitted as a child and has become the oldest and most dangerous patient in the center, with no known diagnosis. Everyone who has dealt with him or tried to cure him has gone mad or committed suicide. The center's managers have ended up confining him and only allow hospital staff to approach him when strictly necessary, convinced that his reintegration could be catastrophic. Parker takes charge of the case, but very soon things begin to spiral out of his control and he will be forced to question everything he believed in.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The Silent Patient by way of Stephen King: Parker, a young, overconfident psychiatrist new to his job at a mental asylum miscalculates catastrophically when he undertakes curing a mysterious and profoundly dangerous patient.
In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient.
We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility’s most difficult, profoundly dangerous case—a forty-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. This patient has no known diagnosis. His symptoms seem to evolve over time. Every person who has attempted to treat him has been driven to madness or suicide.
Desperate and fearful, the hospital’s directors keep him strictly confined and allow minimal contact with staff for their own safety, convinced that releasing him would unleash catastrophe upon the outside world. Parker, brilliant and overconfident, takes it upon himself to discover what ails this patient and finally cure him. But from his first encounter with the mysterious patient, things spiral out of control and, facing a possibility beyond his wildest imaginings, Parker is forced to question everything he thought he knew.
Fans of Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes and Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World will be riveted by Jasper DeWitt’s astonishing debut.
Author: JASPER DEWITT
Publisher: Plaza & Janés
Published: December 3, 2024
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 11.2 ounces
Size: 5.96 x 0.64 x 9 inches
ISBN13: 978-8401033131
ISBN10: 8401033136
BISAC Categories:
- Historical Thrillers
- Supernatural Thrillers
- Psychological Thrillers