The Five Questions You Must Ask Your Therapist
A literary novel due to be published by lightning source spring 2008

“The question is, how did he do it? How could a man be such a convincing liar that he has got away with running a destructive Psychotherapy Cult for thirty years while his current clients are still convinced that he is a therapist whose intention is to help people?

This novel is a journey in to questions and where they can lead. A question had got me into trouble and a question could get me out of it. The extreme negative mindset I was in meant I didn’t feel good most of the time but I felt that I couldn’t just walk away from this therapist because I would not be able to cope with the ‘depression’ without his help. After I left, although the therapist was not in my life, what he did was still affecting my life negatively, I had taken negative thought patterns with me, they were un returnable goods or should I says bad, or evils. I figured out that if I could answer the question of how he put me into that negative state of mind, I could figure out how to get out of it. It worked. Writing this book was the best therapy I ever had.

I got out of the negative mindset on a train of thoughts, this book is the exact line of thinking I needed to take to turn this negative experience around, recover from it and move on and make a success of my life. It is not a memoir, biography or self help book because it’s written from the perspective of my guardian angel. I chose to write it as a novel for a very good reason, I spent most of my adult life living in a world that was not real, what is fiction and what is fact is called into question throughout the story. Imagine waking up to discover your whole life has been a complete sham. You’ve had the starring role on The Truman Show only instead of the actors being perfect they were all perfectly nasty and the events of your life were all unreal and perfectly horrible. A set up. And you played your part out exactly as the director wanted, changing careers, leaving partners and cutting off from your family. Your life didn’t turn into a successful cult movie but you did discover that you’d been living in a Psychotherapy Cult. 

A cross between The Celestine Prophecy, a spiritual travel journey and Everything I Am Cracked Up To Be, travelling lines of thinking when ‘the next big thing’ is banded about but then fails to materialise into big time success for the rock band in ‘real’ terms. What is real? Pictures and words made up the trains of thought that took Jeni Carter, the tenacious rock chick out of a tunnel named failure and turned it into new lines of thinking. The connection is crucial. This novel calls into question the possibilities of the nature of what blocks a person’s rise to success and then causes an abrupt fall. The most unlikely suspect, a crack pot therapist who would be better named a mind terrorist plays a significant role in diverting the lead character’s life. To understand how a therapist can have such control over their client, you have to understand something about the nature of questions and the specific effect of asking a particular question and how come your mind can be so numb that there are questions you don’t think to ask. It all comes down to the therapist’s secret. The answer is all down to the five questions. I am sure you’d like to know what they are. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably not that. You have to follow the trains of thoughts because if you don’t know where they were coming from, you wouldn’t be able to guess where they were headed, and that is my point.

If another person tells you the answer to questions about your life, even if they are right, there is a problem on my line of thinking. If our train of thought doesn’t arrive at its own conclusion by going through its own stations, it’s a magical mystery tour, we have not learnt how to reach our own destinations. We are not driving our trains, we’re on more of a tram system. We are allowing ourselves to be run on lines without knowing where they are coming from which gives us less chance of having an idea where they might be taking us. The process of working out the five questions was one of the most unbelievably fascinating journeys I have ever been on.

The question is, would you like to go on the whole journey or do you just want the answer handed to you on a silver platter?

It’s your choice.”

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