The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides The Silent Patient follows psychotherapist Theo Faber as he investigates the reasons behind the silence of his famous artist patient, Alicia Berenson, after the murder of her husband. But the story isn't as simple as it seems. Alicia refuses to speak and is being kept heavily sedated in a psychiatric unit. Theo thinks he can help her. He has an intense interest in her case. He conducts private sessions with her and eventually she appears to begin to open up to him, offering him her diary to read, where she details her life in the several weeks prior to her husbands death. She wrote that some man had been watching her house. Then he finds a way to get her her own space ot paint in the hopes she will communicate in that way. And she does, but the message in the resulting image was lost on me until the end. Meanwhile, Theo believes his wife, Kathy, is having an affair. He finds sexual emails between her and an unknown man. Theo decides to foll...