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Psychological fiction: “The Neurosurgeon,” by

Travis Robertson available at

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What is Psychological Fiction?

Psychological fiction versus psychological novel(s)

Psychological fiction and psychological novels are the same thing, in my view. The phrase, psychological fiction, can be a single book (a psychological novel) or the category of many books (psychological novels). As in any classification of literature, the designated category or genre of a given work of fiction is often quite subjective in many cases. As the years have gone by more and more books have been included in the psychological fiction grouping, often in retrospect, for psychological fiction (or novel) has not usually been considered as a genre in the past. Even now this genre is not included in many listings: as examples note ProActive Writer, The Guardian, BookPage, and Goodreads. On the other hand, the Syosset Public Library includes psychological fiction in its suggested reading by genre, as do Ranker, WorldCat, and LibraryThing.

Interestingly, Dictionary.com appears to merge “psychological fiction” and “psychological novel” together by defining a psychological novel as a

“work of fiction in which the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the characters are of equal or greater interest than is the external action of the narrative. In a psychological novel the emotional reactions and internal states of the characters are influenced by and in turn trigger external events in a meaningful symbiosis. This emphasis on the inner life of characters is a fundamental element of a vast body of fiction: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is perhaps the prime early example of it in dramatic form.”

Psychological Fiction and the Protagonist

Psychological fiction and the doctor’s mind

Psychological fiction: The author of this book, one of many books on psychological fiction, draws us into the mind of Doctor Ira Stone. The doctor and the reader each hear and feel the drama. See below.

From The Neurosurgeon, psychological fiction by Travis Robertson

          “…The woman broke out into a keening, shattering, high-pitched wail so terrible it froze my heart…”

Later

          “…Besotted by sex and intoxicated with Steffi, I lay beyond any comprehension of the sudden change in my mistress, throwing up my arms to defend myself, latching onto her slippery wrists. Then, just as abruptly, she ceased her attack, dropping on top of me, falling into a dead faint, the only movement two final thrusts of her pelvis. Then silence, except for her breathing. And the violent pounding of two hearts as I pulled her away…”

And later

          “…This nurse was a living magnet, drawing me toward her…even as I nursed my bruises. Stephanie wasn’t evil. Or was she? This Steffi DeLeon sailed through seas of extraordinary passion, her passage punctured by bursts of irrational anger, leaving me bobbing in her wake. She certainly wasn’t dull. The woman had turned my life upside-down and, God help me, a part of me liked it! She was the antithesis of everything my previous self had stood for. This nurse extraordinaire made me feel alive, wanted, free. John Barleycorn and Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater had cast the deciding votes for this creature who instilled such carnal desire…”

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          “…I stopped reading. ‘Do you remember Daddy?’ I asked.

          Little Mike shook his head side-to-side.

          ‘How was he mean, Buddy?’

          ‘Mommy said so. He hurt Mommy.’

          Realizing that the child was caught in a tragedy not of his making, I wondered if this three-and-a-half-year-old had lost more than just a Father. ‘Do you want to see Daddy some day?’

          A long pause. ‘Daddy did bad things…’”

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(View another page in this website to see a thesaurus of 2,060 synonyms for “said,” “thought,” and “walked” in the author’s Mini-Thesaurus for psychological fiction. Synonyms for these verbs were used extensively in the psychological novel, The Neurosurgeon.)

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Psychological Fiction: “The Neurosurgeon”

Psychological Fiction: “The Neurosurgeon”