In another diary entry from Alicia six years prior, she reveals her mother’s apparent suicide when she purposefully slammed their car into a wall with Alicia inside. Theo sees Kathy as the light in his life and feels that he is blessed with a love that very few of his patients ever experience. They started dating and were married within a few months. When Theo meets Kathy at a nearby restaurant, he explains that both of them met while dating other people and cheated on their respective partners with each other. One of Alicia’s doctors, Yuri, tells Theo to return to his wife Kathy and forget about Alicia. He tries to contact her brother-in-law Max and her aunt Lydia, but both refuse to speak to Theo. During their first therapy session, however, Theo is disappointed to see that Alicia is heavily medicated and unable to understand him. Because he was saved from madness by a therapist named Ruth, Theo believes he can save Alicia, as he knows he would have gone crazy like her without Ruth’s help. He then reveals himself as Theo Faber, a psychotherapist who suffered an abusive childhood. Our narrator, however, is still fascinated by her story and decides to apply for a job at the Grove to help her. Thanks to Diomedes, however, Alicia was found insane and put into an asylum called the Grove. The media tried to figure out her motive as she was found guilty of the murder. From then on, she never said anything to anyone, and only painting a single painting of herself naked in her studio with the word Alcestis. When she was found in her house with the gun, she refused to speak to anyone and tried to kill herself. Six years later, a currently unknown narrator says that Alicia killed her husband Gabriel six years prior for reasons unknown.

She promises that she will only write normal things. She professes her love for her husband Gabriel, as well as her desire to please him by writing in the diary to figure out her emotions. The novel begins with the first entry from the diary of Alicia Berenson. The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan.

The silent patient summary