Kind of Cruel: A Zailer and Waterhouse Mystery (Zailer & Waterhouse Mystery)

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ISBN: 9780143124627
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 26 August, 2014
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Essay by Sophie Hannah: Beware of Psychological Knives Researching my seventh psychological thriller, Kind of Cruel, I realized I was psychologically illiterate. The plot of Kind of Cruel involves hypnotherapy, and I’d never been hypnotized. I was planning to go for one session, but the hypnotherapist took one look at me, decided I was a little on the screwed-up side, and signed me up for fifteen sessions of "hypnoanalysis." I quickly became aware that, dysfunctional as I undoubtedly was, I was far from fluent in the language of psychological dysfunction. I’d fancied myself an expert, and yet I didn’t know how to recognize a textbook narcissist, or an emotional energy vampire. I didn’t know what enmeshment was, or codependency, or enabling, or triangulation. So, while I wrote Kind of Cruel, I simultaneously read lots of books with titles like Healing the Shame That Binds You, Trapped in the Mirror, and Toxic Parents and How to Survive Their Hurtful Legacy. (I had to hide that last one when my nearest and dearest visited, for obvious reasons!) All of these books were fascinating, and they taught me a lot. For forty years, I realized, I’d done my best to make myself understood from a position of psychological illiteracy. I’d relied on phrases like "Whenever I’m with her, I feel as if I’m suffocating" and "There’s something kind of off about him." Suddenly, I had a whole new v

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