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Bad Therapist

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Bad Therapist

By: Evan Wright
Narrated by: Neil Shah
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Inside the biggest scandal in the history of America’s $40 billion drug recovery industry: a predatory Malibu rehab guru - and the fearless female patient who exposed his empire of deceit.

Chris Bathum was a respected therapist, addiction specialist, and founder of one of the fastest-growing rehabilitation chains in America. But Bathum was a total fraud: he was a homicidal meth-head with a history of sexually abusing his patients, scamming insurance companies, and eliminating whistle-blowers. Like Rose Stahl. But this intended victim would be his last. Stahl would risk her life to bring down the monster she and so many other people in need had once trusted for their salvation.

Evan Wright’s Bad Therapist is part of Exposure, a collection of six incredible and true stories of American double lives from millionaire CEOs and suburban teens to undercover investigators and scam artists - all for whom secrets are a way of life. Each piece can be listened to in a single astonished sitting.

©2019 Evan Wright (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions Crime Law Social Sciences Sociology True Crime Urban White Collar & Corporate Crime Collections Nonfiction

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Bad Therapist is a shocking true story of fraud, abuse and drug addiction in California. The book is beautifully written and researched. A gripping listen.

Gripping

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Amazing true story typical of swindlers and fraudsters that see an opportunity in the system to fund their lifestyles and cause great harm and hurt too others .. Well told story with excellent narration giving it a unique feel … a different style but definitely worth a listen

Don’t be put off by the comments on the narration

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I'm not American so it was a revelation to find out just how corrupt the rehab industry was/is. Fascinating to discover how yet another well-intentioned social intervention was appropriated by neoliberalism and profiteers.

Interesting exposé

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This is a badly written story of what could potentially be a very interesting topic. However, it is not well written, and what’s more, the narrator is the worst I’ve ever heard. The terrible and unnecessary imitations of the real people involved are embarrassing and cringe worthy to listen to. I can’t stress enough how much I disliked listening to this narrator. It was a hard listen to get through.

Terrible narrator

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narrators depictions of female characters is awful...makes them sound air headed. story would be been more thrilling if narrator was better

could have been better

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Interesting story and seemingly well researched but diverts by quite a way and the narration turns very strange, comedic at points. This mis-match, especially with the seriousness of the theme is distracting.

Weird narration

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Listened to two and a bit chapters, then deleted - not worth several hours of anyone’s life. There is an interesting story somewhere in here, about how lack of oversight in the rehab industry allows abuse to thrive and how gaps in the Affordable Care Act opened the market to fraudsters: this audiobook isn’t it, though. Instead it gives you paragraphs and paragraphs on the dress sense and peccadilloes of interviewees. You practically get told what their favourite sandwich fillings are.

Might have worked as a 30-minute podcast

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Story dragged on quite a bit. I don't think it needed to be as long as it was. The narrator's voice for every single woman was said in a whispering, sexual and bimbo type tone of voice. He should have used an actual woman. I don't think his vocal cords can pull off a female tone, nothing personal towards him as a narrator, it just isn't his thing. His regular narrator voice was good to listen to though - calming, steady and deep.

Story drags, Female voices do not suit narrator

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Genuinely hilarious voices for Rose and the therapist - what in earth possessed the narrator to do it and someone to sign that off saying ‘yep that’s great’?!!! Couldn’t listen to much as was too
busy laughing.

What’s with the odd voices???

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