Psychodrama

Dr. Sonny “Sully” Sullivan knows how to help—until the right way stops working. An old friend drops in with a son who’s burned through every intervention. An abused daughter refuses the part she’s been assigned. The psych unit hums with alarms and fluorescent mercy, and the therapist who knows the rules begins to cross them—one small, human step at a time.

Told in a unique, gritty voice that cuts clean as a scalpel, Psychodrama drags compassion into the alley and asks what love means when “help” keeps making it worse. The sentences carry bruises. The humor is gallows-bright. The heart is stubborn, complicated, and real. Featuring the grown-up glories and agonies of characters from the YA novella Also-Ran, this is what happens when the wound you carry becomes the engine that drives you. Psychodrama is for readers who want fiction with a gut-punch—spare, unsentimental, and authentic. Timothy M. Tays is a retired clinical psychologist with a bare-knuckled style—and a voice you can hear breathing through every page.

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