Prescription for Terror [Paperback]

Sandra Levy Ceren (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Prescription for Terror is a powerful compelling story with authentic psychological background. Readers won't be able to put it down and will eagerly await the sequel. -- Maryanne Raphael, Writers World

A dangerous book, it kept me up all night. -- Selma Rubin, Ph.D., Instructor, English Department, University of Miami

Dr. Ceren knows her subject well. She provides great insight into the mind of a serial killer. The reader is right there with him at every twist and turn. Her vivid portrayal of charcters are believable and captivating. Ceren raises awarness of a danger of managed care not usually considered. This is a real page turner. -- Amy Lamson, Ph.D., Clinical and Forensic Psychology

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Andrew Scott Pub; First Edition edition (May 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966986105
• ISBN-13: 978-0966986105
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,268,133 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sandra L. Ceren, Ph.D. was born and educated in New York City, but has spent the last several decades on the California coast.

A practicing clinical psychologist for over forty years, she completed the training program in New York at the American Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She earned the status of Diplomate from the American Board of Family Psychology, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Family Psychology and a member of the Academy of Psychologists in Marital and Family Therapy. She is a former editor of The Family Psychologist.

Based on her research and long experience with couples of all ages, those contemplating marriage for the first time, or after several relationships, she crafted a unique premarital counseling program. The materials have proven reliable in determining compatibility and emotional readiness for marriage. The personalized program teaches effective communication and conflict resolution skills applicable to daily life.

Apart from direct contact with clients, she has reported on mental health research and responded to queries in a weekly newspaper column, ASK DR. CEREN. This popular column has been published in newspapers over many years. Dr. Ceren is known to the media as an expert in relationships and has appeared on Oprah!, Good Morning America, and BBC World News.

Also, she has a passion for writing fiction. Prescription For Terror, the first in her series of psychological thrillers featuring a psychologist/sleuth was published in 1999, followed by Secrets From The Couch in 2002. Two more in the series is slated for publication in 2011. Many of her short stories have been published in anthologies.

She has first hand experience in marriage, separation, divorce, single parenting, the contentment of a second marriage, and the luxurious role of grandmother.

Learn more about Dr. Sandra L. Ceren, read blog postings, and the latest news at www.DrSandraLevyCeren.com

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A gripping page-turner!, October 14, 1999

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Kris Neri (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prescription for Terror (Paperback)

Psychologist Sandra Levy Ceren has created strong portraits of both the ruthless psychopathic rapist who preys on the vulnerable young therapy patients of San Diego -- as well as the engaging and enigmatic therapist who takes him on, despite the haunting demons in her own past. The danger that Presciption for Terror exposes in the managed care system is absolutely chilling. Just try to put it down!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Gripping Story Line and Characters Dealing with Real Life, August 4, 1999

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Maureen Nevin ([e-mail]) (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prescription for Terror (Paperback)

In Prescription for Terror, Dr. Levy Ceren shares more than a good tale set in a beautiful, interesting locale. She dispenses valuable insights into the analyst's own mind; how they cope with ethics; the devil's choice of managed care; their own personality weaknesses, as well as quirks. I like Dr. Cohen, her heroine. She's at an interesting age, accomplished in a career she loves, sexually confident, susceptible to romance, but not to her detriment. A good role model to fill a huge void -- that post-baby making age group. I can imagine her screen character breaking the tension with those yiddish wisdoms and witticisms, whether in conversations with friends or in whispers from her ghostly granny. Can't wait to read the next one!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting, July 29, 2000

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Pamela Stone - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prescription for Terror (Paperback)

There's only two ways a reader can read this one and it not affect his or her mind or life, either with the lights on or during the daytime. It's that intense and riveting. There is a danger along the San Diego coast, where a slasher, rapist is targeting young lonely single women. After one of Dr. Cory Cohen's patients is killed, Cory decides to get involved, but the police do not want her help, needless to say that does not stop Cory. She bands together a group of psychologists in hopes of finding out how many of their patients are receiving calls from the rapist, they also attempt to come up with a pattern. Cory decides to go even further by putting herself in harms way to get this maniac. I call him a maniac because the rapist they are dealing with is a brutal, unemotional psychopath like no other I have ever read. The author does an excellent job of literally putting the reader into the mind of the killer. I promise as you read Prescription for Terror, you too will wonder with a feeling of fear could there really be such an evil creature as this running around our streets. This psychological thriller is one of the best that I have read. It was fast paced -- a real page-turner. I can hardly wait for the sequel.