Scar Culture
by Toni Davidson
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Two profoundly abused patients deemed untreatable by orthodox professionals fall into the hands of a manipulative psychologist almost as damaged as they are. Bored by the hack work of standard therapy, he wants to make his name through radical intervention. He sets up elaborate hallucinogenic and regression experiments designed to take his patients back to the scene of the crimes against them in an attempt to rebuild them from the ground up. But in playing therapeutic god, ripping away at show more their psychic scars, he's courting disaster. A brilliant debut novel that is destined to challenge the way we think about psychotherapy, Scar Culture is breathtaking, at times shocking, provocative, humane, sharp-witted and always riveting, marking the arrival of an extraordinary new voice. show lessTags
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Very dark. The sort of book that makes you look at the bizarre cruelties of human beings & how they can inflict them on those they should be loving & caring for. The vicious cycle of abuse through generations. The brave, unflinching construction takes it a step away from 'misery porn' though. At times a little self-conciously post-modern. But here & there a glimpse of humanity that is light to touch & true.
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Toni Davidson is the editor of "And Thus I Will Freely Sing" & "Intoxication: An Anthology of Stimulant-Based Writing." He lives & works in Glasgow. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Gallimard, Folio (4072)
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