Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past few months, Berry has started each Monday morning by visiting a stress therapist...
...fact, The Deep End possesses a fairly suspenseful plot--it is billed as a "psychological thriller"--and Crutcher makes it believable by drawing upon his experiences as a therapist for abused children. He uses shock value to interest his reader, relying on the same brand of nauseating descriptions as Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs...
Crutcher bases the protagonist of the novel, Wilson Corder, upon himself. Corder is a child therapist who attempts to decipher what has happened to abused children by talking with them. He gets them to cooperate by using a controversial examination method called play therapy--he has children act out their trauma through toys...
...Corder discovers all kinds of juicy information and ends up playing the role of the third-party-who-knows-a-deadly-secret-so-he-has-to -be- killed role. Now both Wilson's colleague and Dr. Banner posses the motive to kill Corder and they put pressure on the therapist to abandon his cases. Eventually Corder succumbs to their requests, but only after the killer attacks his daughter and then sets his house afire...
Alan: This is important. His therapist thinks he had a chance. Although there's no way to measure something like this, she thinks there was a shift away from his suicidal impulses. But, she said, once he got that book, we lost him. The book gave him confidence...