NAME : DEFANKA FARADIBA KUSUMA

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NOVEL RESUME
“DIE THERAPIE”
By. Sebastian Fitzek

Die Therapy is a psychological thriller and the debut novel by the writer Sebastian Fitzek from
2006. The novel has already sold eight million copies. In addition, the novel was number one on
Spiegel's bestseller list for several weeks.

CHARACTERS
● Dr. Viktor Larenz: The main character in the story, a well-known psychiatrist with a
strong media presence, who is severely traumatized by the loss of his daughter and who
in the course of the story loses the line between reality and madness.
● Josephine "Josy" Larenz: daughter of Viktor Larenz. The girl disappears in a mysterious
way.
● Anna Glass: A writer. She is the enigmatic patient who in psychotherapy Dr. Larenz
faces his own traumatic past.
● Isabel: Josy’s Mother
● Dr. Martin Roth: Yooung Psychiatrist. A Psychiatrist who is treating Larenz from his
suffers Schizophrenia for months.

PLOT
Josy, the twelve-year-old daughter of the popular psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, seems to have
disappeared without trace after one of her numerous visits to the doctor. At this point, she had
been suffering from an illness for months, the cause of which could not be determined by a
treating doctor. Larenz notices Josy's disappearance and suffers a nervous breakdown in his rage.
The investigation remains unsuccessful, Larenz and his wife Isabell live for years without a sign
of life from their daughter.
Four years later, Larenz, who is no longer a practitioner, agrees to moved out in order to end
with the past and retires to the island of Parkum. He gets a surprised visit by a beautiful stranger
who poses as Anna Glass and asks him to treat her. Reluctantly at first, but Larenz begins
therapy when Anna describes his illness to him: she is a writer and suffers from schizophrenia;
all of her fictional characters manifest in her life. Recently there is also a small, like Josy
terminally ill girl named Charlotte from an unfinished fairy tale manuscript.

Larenz senses a new trace, since Anna's stories coincide with the time around Josy's
disappearance. He urges her to finish Charlotte's story: Anna tells him that Charlotte has been
poisoned. During one of her schizophrenic phases, Charlotte appeared to her and begged her to
flee with her from her mother Isabell. Anna had poisoned Charlotte to quench her mother's
instinct and prevent her daughter from growing up. In an attempt to hide her from her mother,
Anna tried to stifle the girl's screams, but killed her.

Larenz awakens with the pointed end of the story, realizing that in truth he killed his own
daughter. He has actually been in a psychiatric clinic as a seriously ill person since his collapse
and experiences this light moment in conversation with a doctor, which also serves as a
confession of murder.

Larenz suffers from Munchausen-Deputy Syndrome and deliberately poisoned his daughter with
medication for months. The numerous visits to the doctor he made with her are also pathological
for this syndrome. In his delusion, he held his wife Isabell responsible for Josy's illness and
drowned Josy to hide her from Isabell. Larenz is also schizophrenic and fled to illusory worlds
after his collapse to the island of Parkum. Anna Glass is a fantasy with which he treated himself.