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The Ruthless Furnace - Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
The Ruthless Furnace - Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
The Ruthless Furnace is the second of three works of fiction featuring psychotherapist Dr Max Maxwell and his work with patients. Badly wounded in Afghanistan, Corporal Frank Bright finds it impossible to return to everyday life; his marriage suffers and after discharge from the army he has been living rough in London.
Two cousins take him in after he stumbles into their church after being inspired by the sound of singing. They encourage him to visit a clinic run for soldiers suffering PTSD by Dr Maxwell. He and Max embark on a complex and ultimately transforming therapeutic journey together. Frank carries the shame of his attack upon his wife. Max carries a secret shame as his own private life is falling apart.
Elizabeth Wilde McCormick worked as a psychotherapist in many different NHS and private settings for forty years. She is also the author of a number of best selling psychological self help books including Change for the Better, Surviving Breakdown, Living on the Edge. The first novel in the trilogy is called The Pale Green Room.
"The sadness, horror and complexity of living with post traumatic stress is brought powerfully home in a compassionate and moving depiction of lives turned upside down by this devastating condition. This engaging novel also shows us the long-lasting effects of traumas domestic, social and developmental. It gives us an insightful, honest glimpse into the lives of sympathetic but flawed - and therefore very real - characters whom one can’t fail to like, no matter what they’ve done, or experienced." Sasha Bates
Sasha Bates is a psychotherapist specialising in embodied psychotherapy, trauma and self-regulation. Her memoir LANGUAGES OF LOSS 2020 explores her personal experience of grief after the death of her husband. Her first career was in the TV industry where she spent 18 years writing, directing and producing for the BBC and C4
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