Medical Thriller - Yes Medical Plotlets: - psychiatrist messes up mind Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult BookĬrime Thriller - Yes Crime plotlets: - vigilante getting revenge General Crime (including known murderer) - Yes Amnesia story? - Yes If story PRIMARILY about main chr. (people, objects, places) 10% Tone of story - scarey (primal ax-wielding fear) of violence and chases 38.9% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 38.9% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 12.2% How society works & physical descript. “In 1910 Freud published a paper attaching what he called “wild analysis.Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript. My feeling is that society needs to be weaned away from the dependency and blind trust in “experts” of all kinds, and that the average person needs to be better educated and then encouraged to trust more in his common sense.

Of course, the peer review and policing in the medical profession is all but an abject failure, so I’m not sure there is an easy solution. “Indeed, there is need to set standards for those that want to use the term “psychotherapist.” But there should also be meaningful peer review and discipline for those erring practitioners who then meet the standards. But the problem is not utterly evil characters they are found out – much more difficult are the legions of well-intentioned therapists who unwittingly create the environments that foster false memories or other inept psychotherapy. He is the most frightening villain in any of Koontz’s novels. Ahriman, the name of the Zoroastrian devil). Koontz clearly wished to portray him as a modern Satan (and he signals that at the outset by naming him Dr. And if the therapist has an agenda and isn’t ethical…’ Koontz’s psychiatrist is an utterly evil character with no sympathetic qualities whatsoever. Book enhanced with curriculum aligned questions and activities.

“In the popular novel False Memory, Dean Koontz wrote, ‘A therapist without finesse can easily, unwittingly implant false memories. Read False Memory: A Novel by Koontz, Dean, lexile & reading level:, (ISBN: 9780307414120).

The paperback edition of Seize the Night has unnumbered pages 447-456 including an advertisement for and the first eight pages of False Memory.įrom Psychiatry in Law/Law in Psychiatry, Volume 2 by Ralph Slovenkoīruner-Routledge, 2002, Chapter 12: Regulation of the Practice of Psychotherapy, p889 The 10/01/99 issue of Library Journal contained a pull-out section from Random House which included an ad for this title.Ī “collector’s edition” on CD was also made available through.

False Memory bookmark (back) False Memory bookmark (front)Ī promotional bookmark for this title was released which promoted the paperback edition of Seize the Night on the back side.

False Memory by Dean Koontz