The Making of Ghosts - Kellerman, Henry

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Résumé :
Psychologist Dr. Glenn Kahn, a recently-widowed expert in the treatment of split-personality disorder, is drawn into the investigation of the death of an autistic adolescent boy found floating in the swimming pool of a mental hospital. As the police investigation unfolds, it is suspected that a split personality in the institution is involved in the death. Simultaneously, while doing research on the treatment of psycho-emotional symptoms, Dr. Kahn discovers a reference that leads him to the work of a medieval monk who had uncovered the key that could open the lock to free people of such symptoms. This leads to the agonizing self-examination of a widowed shrink who refuses to accept what the fates have mercilessly delivered to him. Interweaving threads of fact and fiction, The Making of Ghosts is at once a murder mystery, a recipe book on decoding psychological symptoms and an historic treatise dating back to the Spanish Inquisition. Author Henry Kellerman is a 21st century cubist raconteur, a master of the psyche'...

Biographie:
By Henry Kellerman...

Sommaire:
Henry Kellerman, Ph.D. has held faculty and clinical positions at several universities and hospitals spanning a 50-year career as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. His more than 20 books include works on emotions and personality, dreams and nightmares, love and hate, and the first complete theory on how to cure a specific class of emotional/psychological symptoms. Dr. Kellerman is in private practice of psychotherapy in NYC....