Alicia’s cousin recounts the impact of Alicia’s mother’s suicide when she was a child, and how Alicia’s grieving father said he wished Alicia to be dead instead. Since Alicia fails to speak, Theo reaches out to her cousin to learn more about her.
Meanwhile, Theo learns that his wife is cheating on him, and he learns that her lover is also married. She suspects the brother-in-law who once assaulted her or the owner of the art gallery she had planned to leave. She gives Theo her diary, wherein she details weeks of being watched in her home by a masked man before the murder of her husband. She remains mute during therapy sessions but, over time, Theo reduces her medication, allows her to pain, and gives her time outdoors.
He requests to be assigned to Alicia’s care.Īlicia is “ The Silent Patient,” as she has not spoken since the day of her husband’s murder. Six years later, at the Grove, Theo Faber is a newly hired forensic psychotherapist uniquely intrigued by Alicia’s case. Because she took a plea of “diminished responsibility ” however, she is admitted to a secure forensic unit called the Grove as opposed to being sent to prison.
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