Scar Culture

By Toni Davidson

Book Overview

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 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679310282
• ISBN13: 9780679310280
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

twisted

Compelling drama without resorting to the romantic or maudlin. The intentional vagueness ads alot to the emphemeral quality of the stories. I highly recommend this for people who enjoy non-traditional fiction.