Therapist

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

This is Plasil's ex pose of her own psychoanalyst, who dom inated his patients and forced them to have sex with him. In Plasil's case, the sexual ``treatment'' caused her to doubt her own sanity, have bouts with anorexia and de velop various phobias. After five years, she realized something was wrong and sued the analyst for malpractice, which led to his public disgrace and retirement. PW commented: ``It is hard to understand how the author could have been unquestioning of the bizarre practices to which the thera pist subjected her and other female pa tients.'' (March