The Thundering

Cathleen is psychologist at the prestigious private sanatorium Summerhaven and when a boy, Joseph, is brought in suffering from the delusion he is not human and displays all the characteristics of being a horse. He kicks and neighs and only uses a few words. Can Cathy keep the head psychiatrist from ruining this child forever with over medication or worse yet electrol shock treatment when his form of treatment of the boy doesn't work. Cathy has success with the boy but it's slow. She has him talking more and drawing hopefully opening communication so Cathy can find out the horrors that happened to him to make him withdraw from being a human. She must fight to keep treating him and push him more to speak of things he doesn't want to remember before the head doctor does irreparable damage with his miss diagnosis of scitzophranica. Fighting a superior who refused to address her as Dr. Morgen using Mrs instead in keeping with his idea women didn't belong in a doctors world. He has a totally different approach to patient treatments feeling confrontation would work better. He does let Dr. Morgan continue her work with Joseph closely monitoring her every move and sees she had made great progress with this broken child. He however, makes the biggest mistake ever in his zest to prove schizophrenia.  Excellent read keeping your interest. Highly recommend.