Synopses & Reviews
Two profoundly abused patients deemed untreatable by orthodox professionals fall into the hands of a manipulative psychologist almost as damaged as they are. Bored by the "hack work" of standard therapy, he wants to make his name through radical intervention. He sets up elaborate hallucinogenic and regression experiments designed to take his patients back to the scene of the crimes against them in an attempt to rebuild them from the ground up. But in playing therapeutic god, ripping away at their psychic scars, he's courting disaster.
A brilliant debut novel that is destined to challenge the way we think about psychotherapy, Scar Culture is breathtaking, at times shocking, provocative, humane, sharp-witted and always riveting, marking the arrival of an extraordinary new voice.
About the Author
Toni Davidson was born in Scotland in the sixties. He is a primary school teacher who lives and works in Glasgow. He has edited two anthologies, And Thus I Will Freely Sing and Intoxication: An Anthology of Stimulant-Based Writing. Scar Culture is his first novel.