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The Ghost Doctor: A Post-Mortem Psychotherapy Novel
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ISBN13: 9798290141930
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 6 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 6 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
People don't stop having problems just because they're dead. In this haunting and quietly humorous collection of case notes, a psychotherapist offers sessions not to the living-but to those who didn't quite move on. From stubborn spirits with unfinished business to melancholic echoes of former lives, The Ghost Doctor documents encounters in the space between memory and eternity.
Blending psychological insight with speculative fiction, The Ghost Doctor: A Post-Mortem Psychotherapy Novel explores the griefs that linger after death, the stories that won't rest, and the fragile boundary between presence and absence. Are these true patients? Echoes of the doctor's own mind? Or a final attempt to come to terms with life itself? Dr. Hans Dunkel has retired from his earthly practice, but the dead are not done speaking. In the quiet halls of an abandoned sanatorium, behind a mirror that no longer reflects the living, they come. Some arrive in sorrow, others in anger. A few don't yet know they're dead. But all carry something unresolved. And Hans listens.
What begins as curiosity becomes a calling: a new kind of post-mortem psychotherapy, one that unfolds in the stillness after life, in the shadows of memory, guilt, and unspoken truths. As the sessions deepen, so too does Hans's reckoning with the ghosts of his past, the woman he could never forget, and the question no therapist can avoid forever: Can the one who listens be healed as well? Blending psychology, philosophy, and the surreal, The Ghost Doctor is a hauntingly original novel that lingers like a half-remembered dream. A meditation on mourning, meaning, and the limits of what can, and cannot, be said, even beyond the grave.
What begins as curiosity becomes a calling: a new kind of post-mortem psychotherapy, one that unfolds in the stillness after life, in the shadows of memory, guilt, and unspoken truths. As the sessions deepen, so too does Hans's reckoning with the ghosts of his past, the woman he could never forget, and the question no therapist can avoid forever: Can the one who listens be healed as well? Blending psychology, philosophy, and the surreal, The Ghost Doctor is a hauntingly original novel that lingers like a half-remembered dream. A meditation on mourning, meaning, and the limits of what can, and cannot, be said, even beyond the grave.
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