''Shadow Image'' is a
crime novel
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by the
American
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writer Martin J. Smith (1956-) set in
Pittsburgh
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,
Pennsylvania
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.
It tells the story of psychologist Jim Christensen's work with Alzheimer's patients and his studies in
repressed memory
Repressed memory is an inability to recall autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature. The concept originated in psychoanalytic theory where repression is defined as a protective mechanism that excludes memory of ...
. Now, his most famous patient, the grand matriarch of a powerful political family, has injured herself in a fall. As Christensen studies his patient's art therapy paintings, he unveils a secret locked within the woman's mind that could destroy her family's political ambitions.
Sources
''Contemporary Authors Online''. The Gale Group, 2006. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000132047.
External links
Martin J. Smith website
1998 American novels
American crime novels
Novels set in Pittsburgh
Berkley Books books
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