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Therapy for Ghosts (The James Women Trilogy Book 1) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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3,9 3,9 su 5 stelle 84 voti
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Some memories will find you no matter where you hide…

Cindy James is a cognitive behavioral therapist in a quiet Missouri town, but her precisely patterned life spins into chaos when she is besieged by panic attacks. Forced to undergo counseling with a new, peculiar therapist in town, Tony Prost, Cindy defiantly resists both his unnerving charm and the truth behind the haunting images that are unleashing her anxiety.

As Cindy’s memory flashes increase in frequency, she is jolted by the terrible deed her beloved mother committed to gain their freedom from her father. That memory is one clue to the mystery behind her compulsive behaviors: carrying a headless Raggedy Ann doll throughout the five-story mansion in which she lives alone, spot cleaning the mansion’s thirty-one rooms, and crying herself to sleep in an empty red room. Cindy slowly recalls her grandmother’s dominating, divisive presence and a violent history shrouded by years of silence, binding three generations. She soon realizes that the key to her future is buried in her past, but finding the truth means embarking on a harrowing journey back into the heart of her darkest fears.
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Eric Praschan lives in Columbia, Missouri, with his wife, Stephanie. He has been writing for 20 years, focusing on suspense fiction. Therapy for Ghosts is his first novel. For more information, visit www.ericpraschan.com.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009DTXGVO
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 195 pagine
  • Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0988174707
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Dragonlee
4,0 su 5 stelle A very captivating story and a nice change from the standard plots
Recensito in Canada il 22 aprile 2016
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A very captivating story and a nice change from the standard plots. I enjoyed the originality and the writing. Not for everyone, maybe, but it kept me enthralled..
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4,0 su 5 stelle A Great Concept
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 14 novembre 2013
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3 1/2 Stars

Therapy for Ghosts broaches a difficult and relevant issue that many people suffer from and even more don't understand. It is a brave endeavor by the author and the book title is clever and an appropriate name for the book.

Cindy James, a cognitive behavioral therapist herself, finds she's losing control and needs the help of a colleague. Here, the cause of her mental deterioration is buried deep and is causing her to have physical manifestations becoming paralyzed and losing consciousness when memories creep into her consciousness. The author does an excellent job on the scenes showing Cindy experiencing the episodes caused by her anxieties. They are very well-written, are believable and the reader can visualize and feel for Cindy as she experiences them.

Two things made this book a miss for me. First, it didn't flow due to the descriptive language used. The author often misused words that brought the reading, for me, to a halt such as, "sleepless air," (does air sleep?); "insisted adamantly" (they mean the same thing); or "bit my lip tentatively" (either you bite it or you don't), just to quote a few. And then there were sentences like, "I observe the confusion lolling lazily across her expression."

The second is its lack of plausibility. It started with the diagnosis and treatment assessment after one of Cindy's episodes. The ER doctor took a few tests, found them negative (negative for what I'm not sure) and while she was still nearly unconscious gave Cindy's instructions to go home and to specifically see a "cognitive behavioral therapist," not a neurologists or even psychiatrist, the therapist ultimately offers her no therapy (just jokes) as she remembers everything on her own, usually when he's out of the room. And then there are Cindy's girlfriends that were more worried about whether the new therapist was cute, as if he were a blind date, than how she was feeling, a thirty-one room house where candles are capable of burning all night, and where someone can enter the large house for the first time and know immediately which room to go to. But what was hard for me is that the memory loss that Cindy suffered from only occurred after she was strong enough to break away, live somewhere else for seven years, get two degrees, all while working a full-time job and is seemingly fine the whole time. It wasn't until returning home to a dying mother, at the age of twenty-five, no less, that she suddenly doesn't remember anything about her past. Her entire past. A past that didn't seem very traumatic making the story anti-climatic. Cindy’s past consisted of unwarranted fears of a grandmother who treated her nice, gave her a home, and bought her gifts, and a mother that was nice to her but suffered from depression. The reader is also told of two other events by the grandmother similar to one Cindy witnessed between her mother and father, but since she didn't see it, it probably wouldn't have affected her with the severity the book tells.

All in all, the concept of the book was interesting and intriguing. The need to know of why Cindy suffered so kept the reader guessing and pulled you through the story.
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Future Boy
5,0 su 5 stelle Wow! What a spin on uncovering layers of a person's life!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 14 gennaio 2014
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Wow, this book is amazing. At first, for the first ten pages or so, with the heavy description of the main character's life and gloomy, oversized old house, I had a sinking feeling that the book would be trite and cliche-ridden. Then the main character, Cindy, reluctantly seeks therapy with another therapist (she is a therapist as well) in order to minimally comply with an order from her employer's human resources department to seek professional help so she could return to work.

Then, the exchange between the therapist (named Tony) really set the book afire, with his unconventional ways of challenging her and I really enjoyed the banter as she applies perfect logic to push him aside as a factor in her life, but can't help herself as she seeks solace in his desire to seek the truth within her. No, this is not one of these sappy romances where they swoon over each other. It seems more like they are acting as friends of conviction. He, for some reason, finds her fascinating. I think perhaps he wants to primarily set himself up for the challenge of breaking through such a difficult wall of emotions, guilt, and repressed memories, to play the role of detective and healer. She, in turn, knows she needs to heal and to come to terms with her difficult upbringing.

Yes, I read the reviews after I read the book, which state that such therapy is unethical. Yes, that's correct, but the fact is I never thought of it once while reading, as I'm not a therapist. As stated, I didn't really see they were romantically interested into each other until the very end. I more saw that he was so determined for her to overcome her own barriers. Yes, her friends teased her about a possible relationship with a therapist, but Cindy was so adamant against it, so again I didn't really see the romance part of it. I was more rooting for the detective story, and indeed, layer after layer of memories were peeled off. In a way, it's like a horror story, only that the horror is in the investigation itself, not in any acts of man. I don't like horror, but this was written as a piece of suspense, so I didn't really feel uncomfortable with this book.

Yes, such behaviour is unethical, but what a story! It can easily be fixed by having neither of them therapists. Just read the book again, and imagine that Tony is an insurance salesman who has been called in by a disinterested Cindy to investigate a claim on damage to part of the house, and imagine that Cindy is a lawyer who chose the logic of law in order to escape her own feelings. Imagine that Tony has checked out the house, and submitted her claim for processing, and then it's over, so no conflict of interest in their developing relationship. Tony then claims, with exaggerated bravado, to be "psychic" and "an amazing judge of character" who likes nothing better than "reading people" as an armchair amateur. Then he slowly falls in love with her. Then, read it again, imagining it from that viewpoint, and you'd agree this is a finely paced and written work.

Very well done!
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Jackie Weger
3,0 su 5 stelle Interesting Layered Psychological Suspense
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 5 ottobre 2013
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3 and a 1/2 Stars The reader's attention is captured on the first page of this suspense novel. The protagonist is a fragile, multifaceted character. Not only is she a psychologist/therapist, she has her own deep seated issues and seeks help from another therapist to discover repressed memories. The tension and build to denouement works. While one has immense empathy for Cindy when in dire physical straights, the fact that she engages two former clients as 'friend' and caregiver raised an eyebrow. The therapist that Cindy engages to treat her 'mental' issues becomes a love interest. Wholly unethical in the real world and it did not come off in this book. Actually, a love interest isn't necessary because the tension carries the tale forward. Fans of psychological thrillers who are not concerned with the skewed ethics of the characters, or can overlook them, will thoroughly enjoy Therapy for Ghosts.
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4,0 su 5 stelle Vivid, Detailed, Unexpected, and Cause for Personal Introspection (**Trigger Warnings and Spoiler Alert)
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 7 maggio 2014
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Since finishing this novel, much time has passed and I have also finished The James Women Trilogy altogether. I've noticed a wide variety of reviews on this novel, so my initial advice to readers is this: Finish reading the book and keep pressing on through the next two. This book and this whole series is about so much more than the "unethical" relationship between Cindy and Tony. It is about the demons of our past staring us in the face at the most unpredictable moments, how they can paralyze us (emotionally and physically) if we let them, and how important it is to deal with our deepest issues. It is about choosing life when you feel so absolutely overwhelmed and defeated that you want to do anything but keep breathing. Quite frankly (Here comes a BIG SPOILER!!) Am I the only person who read this book who gave a victorious fist-pump at the end because I can think of a house or two I'd like to burn to the ground? Obviously, I became quite personally involved with this story, and here's why: Eric Praschan writes in such vivid detail that I can clearly picture the people, places, conversations, and, even, the emotions that occur throughout this novel. As a male author, he does a superb job of telling a multi-layered, fascinating story from a woman's perspective. Two thumbs up for his writing style. Here is my trigger warning and why I'm giving a 4-star "I like it" rating instead of a 5-star "I love it" rating: Because of his vivid, detailed writing style and unexpected twists, some of the scenes in this book could trigger the ghosts in a reader's closet, particularly if that reader has personally experienced physical abuse at the hands of a family member (particularly a father or husband), has experienced physical abuse of self (particularly self-cutting), or if the reader has experienced disruptions in mental health, particularly schizophrenia or bi-polar issues. Since I haven't seen any other reviews mentioning these things, I thought I'd throw them out there. Also, I'm typically not into psychological, suspense, or thriller - type novels, but this one seemed very intriguing to me, so I gave it a read. I'm glad I read this book, but I'm even more thankful that I finished the whole series, as it sure does provide some dashes of hope for those who are in undesirable situations or family cycles. To the reader, keep reading. To the author, well done!
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