Bøger af Stefan J. Malecek Ph. D.

Crazy Tales is the fictional accounting of a young soldier serving as an enlisted Psychiatric Consultant in Vietnam in 1968-1969. It frequently visits both trauma and transformation as the protagonist spends his "time in hell."While initially naïve but intrepid, the book follows the personal and clinical growth of Paul Marzeky as he experiences the perils of his clients, and all of the "craziness" that was inherent in Viet Nam combat zones, where all definitions of normalcy became irrelevant. Ministering to the emotional needs of men fresh from combat was often at odds with the tenets of "military psychiatry," whose goals were always to return men to duty as quickly as possible, or eliminate them completely from active duty, leaving little room for other therapeutic approaches-though Paul does his very best to manage compassion and empathy in the midst of the insanity.This is first book of the Paul Marzeky Mysteries Series. The other titles include: Spirals of Time, The Unwitting Witnesses, Alchemy's Angel and Gilded Edges of Shadow.

After Paul returned from Vietnam, he went to work on high volume in-patient psychiatric units, building his clinical skills. He has immersed himself in the work, often with individuals hospitalized involuntarily because of their potential as being a danger to self or others. One afternoon shift a violent, intrusive patent who had previously been secluded and restrained is found murdered in the locked seclusion room. With all the patients and staff suspects, and various police agencies flooding the unit investigating and putting everyone's lives under the lens of the forensic microscope, two different patients come forward as having witnessed the perpetrator-one claiming it was a man, the other a woman. As Paul gets drawn more and more into the case, the limits of his ability to keep confidentiality are tested. When incidents from his own past are uncovered, Paul must make some excruciating decisions to salvage his career, maybe even his life and freedom as at least some of the investigators begin to believe he might be the guilty party.