A Case from Practice
11 hrs. 45 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Graham Macrae Burnett
Author
Graham Macrae Burnett
Narrator
Elena Delver
Narrator
Alexander Aravushkin
Description
A nesting-doll novel about the mad world of 1960s psychiatry, based on real events.
“I’ve decided to write down everything that’s happening right now, because it seems to me that I’m putting myself in danger,” — a young woman investigating her sister’s suicide writes. Inventing for herself an alter ego of a charismatic and mentally unstable girl named Rebecca Smit, she books an appointment with the scandalous psychotherapist Collins Bretewayt. She suspects that it was Bretewayt who pushed her sister to suicide, and begins keeping a diary where she records details of her meetings with the psychotherapist.
But when she is faced with the contradictory, mysterious, and in parts downright sham-like world of 1960s psychiatry, the heroine begins to doubt not only its methods, but also her own sanity.
“I’ve decided to write down everything that’s happening right now, because it seems to me that I’m putting myself in danger,” — a young woman investigating her sister’s suicide writes. Inventing for herself an alter ego of a charismatic and mentally unstable girl named Rebecca Smit, she books an appointment with the scandalous psychotherapist Collins Bretewayt. She suspects that it was Bretewayt who pushed her sister to suicide, and begins keeping a diary where she records details of her meetings with the psychotherapist.
But when she is faced with the contradictory, mysterious, and in parts downright sham-like world of 1960s psychiatry, the heroine begins to doubt not only its methods, but also her own sanity.
