Sublime

us. It was Peter Turner, a world-famous mentalist, a form of magic categorized by mind reading and other impossible psychological effects. A gregarious and audacious guy, he is also a skilled hypnotist. It’s rumored that he once went into the Grosvenor, a casino in London, hypnotized the roulette dealer, and made off with £40,000 in five minutes.

Monica Whitty examined the traits that make victims vulnerable. She found that around two-thirds of victims are women. They tend to be middle-aged, to score high on impulsivity and sensation-seeking, to be less kind but at the same time more trusting, and to have an addictive personality (which is likely to make them more clingy).

Not that you’ll find that in any psychiatry textbook. It’s just something I’ve noticed after decades seeing patients: When people get better, everything holds together and has a rightness. Jacob had a rightness to him that day.

Vienne a joué un rôle considérable pour moi, en tant que ville de naissance de Freud et berceau de la psychothérapie. La lecture de plusieurs biographies de Freud m’avait donné le sentiment d’appartenir à cette ville chargée d’histoire, où avaient vécu tant de mes écrivains favoris, dont Stefan Zweig, Franz Werfel, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Musil,