Madman - the Spiritual Adventure of a Trainee Psychiatrist

This is a psychological novel that tells the story of Thomas Horton, an intern psychiatrist, who spent three days as an intern psychiatrist in a psychiatric hospital. During the past three days, the patient he diagnosed was hit and killed by a mail truck the next day. Was this an accident, or did it involve the suicide of a patient who made a mistake in diagnosis? An attractive female patient with borderline personality disorder strips off her clothes during talk therapy. How will Holden respond to this sudden and seductive behavior? New patient Richard Morbin is another paranoid schizophrenic who drowns birds and thinks men in raincoats will murder him. As if this was not enough, Holden encountered another very difficult patient - an anonymous man with no memory and no self-identity. He was found by the police wandering on the side of the highway, collecting and burying some corpses. What is the intention behind these actions of Anonymous? The author relies on his keen insight, experience in interacting with patients and colleagues, humorous writing, surreal imagination and hints of Eastern philosophy to vividly depict the experience and psychological activities of a trainee psychologist, and combines the practical problems of real mental patients to propose a deep search for meaning.