About The Looney Bin
The Looney Bin offers a VIP trip behind the doors of a ‘unique’ mental health clinic. This story is not about patients. It is about the clinic’s healers daily struggling to maintain their own stability while dealing with their patients’ emotional issues and coping with their neurotic colleagues.
Meet smug psychiatrist, Jack Rackham whose veneer of self-control crumbles when a tragic patient suicide shatters his illusion of being a master of his fate and propels him into a realm of self-duplicity, disillusionment cutting him off from the people and work he loves.
Other quirky clinic staff members, each lugging emotional baggage the size of a steamer-trunk, daily remind themselves that they are just fine. You’ll meet the rigid religious zealot, Felicity Steele, concealing a deep, long-held secret behind her Bible and the rebel therapist, Hester Snopes, who employs Tarot cards and communicates with the dead in her ‘special’ therapy sessions. There’s also Maximo Hernandez, a psychopathic sexual predator in whom the DEA has a more than passing interest. And there’s passive, over-analytical Jim Bizby agonizing over forbidden sexual desires for a seductive patient and doing the right thing in his marriage to a shrewish wife. This novel will compel one to read on to learn if any of these experts in the human mind will choose to confront their hidden fears or perpetuate the lies they tell themselves each day.
Bonny, Jack’s wife, and Fancy Muwamba, a survivor of physical and sexual trauma in her Congo homeland bring vibrance, strength and sanity to this otherwise confused group.
The Looney Bin is a character-driven, dialogue-rich psychological drama about human beings and relationships. It dives deeply into the intricate, emotional depths of its characters as they grapple with the fundamental human fear of inadequacy. The story reveals the extremes to which individuals go to evade the inevitable reality that perfection is unattainable.
Brace yourself for a mind-bending journey through tangled minds and unraveling truths, exposing the raw intricacies of the human psyche in a thought-provoking exploration of the pursuit of self-acceptance.
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Author Bio:
I am a psychiatrist who has practiced in Connecticut, Florida and also a bit of time in Queensland, Australia. My extensive experience working with people with emotional problems led to my non-fiction book, “Say Goodbye to your PDI (Personality Disordered Individual). Recognize People Who Make You Miserable and Eliminate Them from Your Life for Good!” I wrote this book to help many people recognize that they are being guilted as the cause for a loveless, non-gratifying relationship by the other person who manipulates and controls them. With that insight, the suffering person can give up their guilt and go on to live a happy, fulfilling life.
Along with writing a widely read news column on mental health, I have hosted a radio call-in show in addition to appearing on numerous TV and radio programs as an expert on mental health issues.
My present psychological fiction novel, “The Looney Bin”, continues the theme of how we human beings deal with our imperfections and the various ways we either confront or deny them to ourselves.
Now thriving in sunny, southwest Florida, I’m hoping that “The Looney Bin” not only tells a compelling story , but also inspires some reader introspection leading to happier, more fulfilling lives.