Fatal Analysis

Recounts the case of the New York serial killer dubbed the Soda Pop Slasher, who used broken class to cut his young victims, from the perspective of his psychologist, who began to suspect his patient of being the culprit and to believe that he and his girlfriend are the targets of his patient's compulsion. Reprint.

Biographies & Memoirs

Obler, Dr. Martin

Clavin, Thomas

True Crime

Dell

At a New York psychiatric facility, a young intern, Martin Obler, is assigned his first patient, Moira, a beautiful, sensitive policewoman. Three weeks before, during a bank robbery, Moira froze. The robber escaped as she stood staring down at his revolver lying on the pavement. When she finally was able to bend down to retrieve the gun, excruciating pain shot through her back. The pain continued unabated. An examination disclosed no physical cause. Doctors and her superiors called her condition psychosomatic. If Moira wanted to keep her job, she would have to enter therapy. It soon became apparent to Obler that Moira's immediate distress is only part of much darker forces that plague her. In therapy sessions, several personalities violently emerge revealing the demons of her past. Obler, who fights demons of his own, feels compassion for her plight. But he is reprimanded for his sympathetic approach by his supervisor, the famed, charismatic Dr. Mardoff. Mardoff insists Moira be handled by harsh methods. Denying that Moira has multiple personalities, he belittles her illness, brands her a "hysteric, " and characterizes her as a malingering, sexually manipulative woman. Intern, patient, and doctor form a complex triangle of innocence, madness, and evil. As the power-driven psychiatrist begins to manipulate Moira's treatment to his own deadly ends, Obler is faced with making traumatic decisions. They will not only affect his immediate career, but also the rest of his life - and the fragile existence of his patient, Moira.

Moira

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

New Horizon Press

Mesmerizing struggle unfolds as respected psychologist becomes certain manipulative patient is serial killer.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The wild, autobiographical story of Marty Obler, shrink: his childhood in an extremely poor, dysfunctional family; in a Jewish ghetto in Brownsville, Brooklyn; head of a gang in his youth; fleeing his ghetto world to Israel; getting kicked out of a kibbutz; eventually returning to Brooklyn and storming through Brooklyn College; graduate school, getting his Ph. D.; making his way in his wild fashion in a couple of counseling jobs; and, finally beginning a successful practice as a psychotherapist, in which he details a number of riveting case studies, not the least of which is his own—more of a self-analysis. And the latter, brutally (or ridiculously) honest, is in a class by itself… there is almost nothing out there to compare it to.

Shrink

Golden, Jed

Professionals & Academics

Andrew Benzie Books

Shrink: The Autobiography of a Psychotherapist

Memoirs

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