| Title | : | Im a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison (Dr. Harper Therapy, #2) |
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| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 177 |
| Publication | : | Published July 15, 2019 |
The highly anticipated sequel to I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is Going to be the Next School Shooter
I've counseled the most chilling criminals... A young inmate who fell in love with a pedophile. A man who intentionally infected strangers with HIV. A patient with an extremely unusual addiction. A sociopath who wanted to have a conscience. A conspiracy theorist who harassed victims of a terrorist attack.
And the patient who still haunts my dreams: A boy sold into human trafficking.
In these files, you'll learn about the the psychology behind the world's most dangerous criminals.
But you'll also learn about me -- and the worst thing I've ever done.
Im a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison (Dr. Harper Therapy, #2) Reviews
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Horror/humour show goes on.
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I had guessed this diagnosis for many of my past patients, and I had always been wrong. (c)
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I had a love / hate relationship with the first book, and rated it 3 stars. I wish I could give this book a million stars. It was significantly better than the first one, and had a really good plot! The writing was much better as well. I am really excited for the next book of the series. There was only one part that made me chuckle / that I thought was a little silly, which is when Dr. Harper said "that was the best night of my life," which is kind of funny because he had two patients kidnapped in his attic that night haha. Apart from that, this book was really, really good, and I can't wait to read the next one of the series. This would make a really good TV show or movie one day.
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Better than the first one but still a healthy dose of ridiculousness.
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See I'm not one to hate any character in a novel. Even if they're an antagonist. But MY GOD was I this close to losing it while reading this. That Dr. Zhang is pure evil, worthy-to-challenge-Dolores-Umbridge-kinda-evil. Overall, nothing goes right for Dr. Harper. And when I say nothing, I mean nothing. From the very beginning till the very end. Although, things eventually do get resolved... Somewhat. The twist at the end was good, I didn't see that coming, though, I lowkey wish it hadn't come, but *sigh*, I guess it'll spice things up for the next book.
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I actually do not know why I read the whole of the book. It’s very strange but I had to know the ending. No the question is, do I read the third in the series or just forget about it?
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Definitely more unrealistic than the last one, but I really enjoyed how all the stories came together and was one big story that you had to piece together. I could not stop thinking about it even when I was not reading. Noah though <3333
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I hated Dr. Zhang so. much. This one had a more cohesive story than the first one, so I think it was a bit better! Looking forward to the next one! Also, Noah 💕💕💕
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I've read the first book in this series right before the start of 2023 and I absolutely loved it. The books in this series are such quick reads and I am just hooked. They are a collection of psychological thriller stories that are connected with a single overarching plot which gain prominence towards the climax.
In the second installment of this series, we follow Dr. Harper still. Except that he's now in prison and shouldn't be in practice anymore, but he wants to help his fellow inmates, so he conducts sessions during lunch breaks. During these sessions, he finds out more about the people around him and the prison where he is in. As he gets deeper into his patient's cases, he soon realizes that he is not in a safe place.
I think that I was hooked into this second book more than I was in the first. The story-telling and the connections between the patient files are more interesting and more complex. I'm looking forward to reading the last book in this series! Highly recommend. 🤩 -
3.5 stars rounded up to 4. I enjoyed the first book more, if that says anything. But one of my online book clubs was saying how great this series is. It's interesting and different, unlike anything else I've read. Maybe it's me but for some reason that I can't pinpoint,. Can't give it a higher solid star rating. It's still fun and interesting, but not what I was expecting after all the rave reviews I've seen in book clubs
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Animal Farm, but make it creepy
This is the second Dr. Harper book and I don’t know why or how but these books/case files just keep getting better. I like the fact that there separate books are connected, but not necessarily needed to read the next. -
Ridiculous
I finished this book just so I could review it. It was terrible. Unrealistic, poor character development- really. Do not waste your time. -
no idea how i flew through this but i need to get my hands on the last one asap! the whole spider web of plot twists and cryptic characters have me so invested it’s insane, also noah my beloved <3
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3.5 stars! I enjoyed the first book in the series a bit more but still enjoyed this too.
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What a wild ride! Ok so I completely devoured this in 1 day 😂😂 Right off the bat I knew this book would be so much better than the first. The character development, writing style and creativity were so on point. I loved all the characters especially Noah and I absolutely loved this addicting read and can’t wait for the next book to arrive on Tuesday, 12/8/2020 🤣
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Interesting read
The story is written as a first hand account of a doctor. It is well worth your time. The main character, Dr. Harper, is very good at getting himself into some very bad situations. Noah, Zach, and a myriad of other questionable characters pop in and out of Dr. Harper's bazaar life. Enjoyed it front to back. -
Had to dive into the second book of the dr. Harper series. Another quick easy read. Still loving the twists and turns. Still three stars for being far fetched but you have to love the character development.
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I wasn’t sure how interesting this book could be since it’s from his perspective in prison, but it definitely surprised me. These books are never boring that’s for sure. I liked the first one better but this was really good too.
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4.5
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Trouble follows Dr Harper with a capital T lol. I'd feel bad for him but given all the entertainment these books, his life and his attitude are providing me, I don't have it in me to feel bad about any damn thing😂♥️♥️
Dr. Harper’s personality — irritable, judgmental, and a bit paranoid. He was an unpleasant man, but for some reason, I very much enjoyed being him.
I loved this book too. I loved the first one more, I think, but this was no less chaotic, crazy, entertaining and suspenseful with a good dose of psych thrown in. Dr. Harper is as temperamental as ever even in prison, with a penchant for psycho analysizing and treating his prison inmates. It was refreshingly intriguing and intense but also sort of funny.
Also, now that I think about it, I am very surprised Elliot didn't get shanked with a prison shiv considering his snappy attitude😂😂
The plot was pretty chilling as I discovered it bit by bit along with Dr. Harper. I was hooked the whole time.
In most social interactions, a certain degree of mirroring is healthy and expected. From a young age, we learn to take on the subtle tones, gestures, and inflections of the people around us. It’s actually a sign of well-developed empathy, and it tends to result in stronger interpersonal connections.
Mirroring can become troublesome when we lack a stable identity of our own, so we begin taking on too much of the people around us. This phenomenon is most notably observed in patients with personality disorders, where they mimic not just small social cues — but big things too — like your hopes, dreams, hobbies, and insecurities.
When someone copies your entire personality, it’s not a sign of empathy.
It’s a sign of the complete opposite.
I am gonna move on to the next book which already has me intrigued given the prelude to its events in this book's event. But I can't recommend both this and the first book enough! Go read it already!🖤🖤
As I looked around the bellower, I shook my head and tried to adjust to my new reality. I was about to be stuck on an island with a self-proclaimed reformed sociopath, my codependent assistant who I was also apparently dating, and the childhood crush who rejected me.
This was my life now.
On to the island and the Influencer files! 😏😆 -
Book Review
Title: I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison
Author: Dr. Harper
Genre: Short stories/Horror/Mental Health
Rating: *****
Review: I am going to follow the same method as my review of the first book and review the patient files individually but you also need to be aware that all the stories are connected and there is a overarching story line that you need to be able to follow. With Elliot now stuck in prison after being framed by Kierra and the Happy Family cult, Noah is MIA, but he has been presented with an opportunity to possibly escape by a mysterious prisoner and I am already sold.
The first patient file belongs to Sam, who is also in prison with his love Arthur, but they are having issues in their relationship and turn to Elliot for help. It turns out that Arthur abused Sam when he was a child and developed alternate personalities to help him cope. However, Sam the true personality claims to love Arthur which poses some many problems in treating him much to the anger of the prison therapist. Elliot seems to be helping Sam but when the prison therapist tricks Elliot by swapping out Sam’s medication and telling him the wrong grounding words, Sam snaps and kills Arthur before dying himself which hurts Elliot as he was genuinely trying to help the boy. Elliot does learn from Tony, the prison conspiracy theorist, that Sam was one of the Glade Farm Boys, specifically #93 meaning there are 92 others just like him. Throughout this story we get flashbacks to Elliot’s life before prison with Noah as they find a little boy on the beach who seems to be one of these boys.
The second patient file belongs to Don, a prisoner who is there because he intentionally infected people with HIV and Elliot tries to help him only to be attacked and injected with Don’s blood meaning he has a high chance of getting HIV unless he gets the proper medication. However, the prison therapist will not give Elliot the medication he needs unless he hands over Sam’s photo, but he knows it is significant to her and withholds it. He is then approached by Don’s cellmate who offers him the pills he was given for his help and Elliot immediately agrees. However, when Don ends up dead, Tony tells him that Bernard is the biggest dealer in the prison and he ratted Elliot out the Doctor Zhang who puts him in solitary for stealing pills which means the window where he could counteract the HIV infection with medication will be gone and he will have a 92% chance of testing positive for HIV. It seems like Elliot’s life is just getting harder and harder but we get another flashback to the back on the beach where he tells Elliot and Noah and that the “animals” on the “farm” are attacking, raping and killing young boys and this is mystery I think we are going to follow throughout the novel.
The third patient file belongs to an inmate who has a very strange addiction. This inmate likes to copy the personalities of other to keep the crushing emptiness inside himself away and Dr. Elliot Harper is his new target as Doctor Zhang wants something from Elliot. For a while the real Elliot and the imposter talk and when Zhang arrives for Elliot’s decision they give different answers but the copycat leads Zhang to what she wants which is good for the real Elliot as he gets the medication he needs but he has sacrificed his only chance of finding out what happened to Sam in his childhood. However, this inmate has strikingly similarities to the young boy on the beach, who we now know is called James and he claims to have another James copying him, but Noah is there to help him see that it isn’t another James but James’ opposite.
The fourth patient file belongs to Chase, who is the Zombie Killer from the first book. He approaches Elliot and asks him to build him a conscience as there is someone within the prisoner trying to manipulate him into killing again. For a while, Elliot doesn’t believe him, but Chase wants to get better and works with Elliot until they are both called into Zhang’s office. Elliot faces off against Zhang and wins Chase trust as he tells Elliot that Zhang wants him to eat the bodies of the children, she has kidnapped in order to replace the man that is currently disposing of the bodies. Elliot isn’t sure whether he believes this, but Zhang’s reaction proves it as she says Chase’s trigger phrase which causes him to attack Elliot and bite off his ear, but he is getting closer to the heart of the mystery. Back in the past it seems that James is or was one of the children kidnapped by Zhang and it seems that they might be a part of a pedophile ring or some CIA experiment like Chase was and I can’t wait to see what the ending 2 files have in store for us.
The fifth patient files belongs to belongs to Tony, who isn’t who we think he is. It turns out that his name is Richard and he has assumed the identity of someone else to cover up his grief from killing him own son but he has tons of information of Zhang that could bring down her pedophile ring once and for all and Tony gives Elliot the opportunity he needs to get that information but it is clear that Elliot can’t trust anyone inside the prison as the prison is a cover for the ring itself and a lot of inmate are involved with it. This means that every second Elliot is inside the prison knowing what he knows his life is in danger and he doesn’t even have anyone on the outside he can ask for help as Noah is still missing and his only other friend Zack refuses to believe him meaning Elliot is completely on his own taking on a powerful group of people to save lots of boys from being abused and trafficked.
The final patient file belongs to James as Elliot is finally able to bring the pieces of the puzzle together and rescue the boy he failed to protect before. However, Elliot is now a prison escapee but with Zach’s help the public opinion on him is changing. Zach is also able to reunite Elliot and Noah, and Noah is a darling as he wants to continue his budding relationship with Elliot even though he has tested positive for HIV. Zach has a condition; however, he wants Elliot to join him on a island retreat hosted by SlapDot the same company that Tony/Richard apparently worked for as Zach has uncovered something that makes him believe something bad is going to happen there and he agrees. However, Kierra is coming with them as Noah truly believes she has changed but I don’t believe it for a second. Right at the end of the book we get a comment on the SlapDot announcement about a massacre that is going to be livestreamed during the retreat and I can’t wait to jump into the final book as soon as I can and I hope that Elliot gets the happy ending he deserves with Noah. -
the pacing of this book, I feel, was a lot more sensible than the first book. This book actually had things that I consider to be plausible inside of it, then again I guess I could be called a conspiracy theorist, but that is neither here nor there.
I really grew to love Dr Harper as a person even more in this book than I did in the first. He is quick to think on his feet and is excellent at getting things done when he truly believes in something. He is relentless and never gives up. Even though he is a bit of an asshole, I do admire his fight and drive. It’s a really cool thing to read about coming from a character you probably wouldn’t expect it from.
The stories in this book were woven together much better than the previous book. They were very well intertwined and made sense together. I loved finishing each patient file because even though it felt closed off, I knew the best part of it was to come later on to play in with another patient file. Everything had a very nice flow and kept the story moving seamlessly.
There were still a fair share of twists in this book, but they seemed to move the story along better, rather than be there just for the sake of drama.
Overall, this was well written, much more thought out than the previous one and I’m excited for book #3. Onto the next! -
2 stars overall. This collection was different from the first one in that there is two sections of stories. Story ARC one is the Company Retreat and does eventually connect back to the patient files. I liked the first patient files more because they read like singular stories. These were all interconnected and focused more on Dr. Harper and not the patients. I think the title story was the only hardcore patient plotline that didn't focus more on the Dr. It was also just all over the place and not a consistent story, but will I read the last one? Yep. I'm not hate reading them because I'm interested, but I don't like most of the stories. Full review to come.
4 stars: "Cannibal Conscience"
3 stars: "Unusual Addiction" "Company Retreat: The Copy Cat" "False Flag"
2 stars: "You're Invited to the Dr. Harper Therapy Company Retreat" "HIV Infections" "Company Retreat: The Bumblebee" "Company Retreat: The Dragon" "Company Retreat: The Snake" "Human Trafficking"
1 star: "Pedophile Love" "Company Retreat: The Wolf" "Slapfest Sold Out in Less Than 1 Hour" -
again, WOW!
so, i want to point out that everything happening in these books is like way over the top probably could never happen in real life but WOW am i hooked!
the first book kept me guessing and this one was no different. it’s so crazy how the author spins this disjointed but at the same conjoined story. and i loved the little in between story between the files. just… gosh!
i could not stop reading. i had to know who was who and what was as about to happen. Harper had me audibly gasp multiple times like “WTF!”
i really enjoy this series and while i told myself i wouldn’t read the third book, i seriously cannot help but add it to my to read pile. i HAVE to know how this ends.
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Omg like I have no words I am in shock mouth drops 😵this kept me on my tippy toes on the edge my seat this one is my fave out of the 3 books I still have to read the fourth one.
This made me sad cry a bit angry dumbfounded oh and there is a extreme plot twist with two therapists in a certain situation that I was like yes yes you dumb bi***. I could deffs write a whole essay about why I love this short story I wish I can read it again for the first time and I wish it was longer bc I hate how it finished I wanted more I want all the books to be more I want the second book to be a movie that would be amazing. Ok I’ll shut up now 😂 -
The Doctor Harper Therapy series is one filled with nothing but twists and turns, ever connecting stories and characters that you just cannot trust!
This second novel in the series was even better that the first and a great continuation, leaving the reader wanting more!
I cannot express how incredible the author is for this world he's building and how everything has meaning later on! You're often left sat in shock as everything begins clicking into place!
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This second novella had me on EDGE the entire time!!!!!! The twists in this one took me through every emotion possible. My favorite books are the ones the floor you and this one did beyond that. The character development went much further in this one and the subject matter was a rabbit hole that we discovered along the way rather than ahead of time like alot of predictable horror manages to do. Loved every part of it!
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This was solo good!
I know these files are fake but they suck me in! I love these books. They are so dark and scary to think about. I just keep thinking " what if these were real?" And then it freaks me out. These books could be movies! -
Love this book
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another amazing book 😍 dark and weird and I loved it 😊 2 and half hours to finish now on to book 3
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These are so batshit but so much fun. I just speed through them--they may be the most illogical books on the planet but they are also...man, they are so much fun. So, so, so much fun. I'm excited to get to the Vegan terrorist one!
