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Dr. Michael Harris has spent twenty-seven years inside other people's minds. He knows how to listen. He knows how to observe. He knows, with the practiced certainty of a man who has made a career of it, how to identify the exact moment a patient's defenses begin to crack. What he does not know is that his newest patient has been watching him just as carefully. Thomas Crane arrives at Michael's office with a straightforward referral: generalized anxiety, difficulty with emotional regulation. He is articulate, self-aware, and oddly at ease in a clinical setting. He is also, Michael will discover, extraordinarily observant. Session by session, Thomas begins to reflect something back at his psychiatrist that Michael has spent decades refusing to see in himself. What begins as a standard course of therapy slowly becomes something far more unsettling. The frameworks Michael uses to help his patients are turned, with quiet precision, in his direction. The distance he has always maintained between himself and his own interior life begins to collapse. And the professional certainty he has built his entire identity around starts to reveal itself as something more fragile, and more desperate, than he ever admitted. The Patient Who Diagnosed His Psychiatrist is a slow-burn psychological thriller about the stories we tell themselves to survive, the distance we keep from our own pain, and what happens when the person most qualified to help us happens to be sitting in the wrong chair. Part of the Quiet Lies series. Each novel stands completely alone.

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