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Bad Therapist

Auteur(s): Evan Wright
Narrateur(s): 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. Crime Crimes sexuels Criminalité d'entreprise Droit Escrocs, canulars et tromperies Sciences sociales Sociologie True Crime Biographie Collections Nonfiction
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Reader needs to work on his voices. Especially female voices. Was kind of comical but still a good read.

Good story

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I enjoy listening to podcasts as I work at my desk . This was an easy read that allowed me to work along while listening. I was not a fan of the narrators impersonations, but otherwise I quite enjoyed the story. I would recommend this podcast

An easy listen

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this was an okay story. it could have been more suspenseful, I think they revealed too much from the beginning. however it's still interesting and it was a great price.

ok story

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I finished this in one session. The narration was funny, especially the weird voices of the female characters. Had me chuckle a lot.

Fascinating story

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It was well written and easy to follow but I really didn’t like the narrator doing voices for everyone, especially the women. It cheapened their roll in the story and it sounded like he was mocking them, it was hard to take it seriously. I only kept listening because I wanted the information. Sorry Neil, I’m sure you’re a nice dude.

Good story but…

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Voices of characters sound mocking and distract from story. Therapist's "voice" makes me cringe and women's sound like they're being mocked. Worst narration I've ever encountered.

Narration makes almost unlistenable

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I actually LOL'd listening to this recording.. yes, you heard that right - I chuckled with amusement while listening to a True Crime documentary.
This report on a California sober-living scam artist in the late 2000s is not bad. Evan Wright researches the case extensively, writes with creditable vocabulary & prose, and presents it in an interesting way (deftly introducing co-conspirators, victims, and witnesses chapter-by-chapter while following a logical chronological matrix).

Unfortunately, the narration from Neil Shah is ridiculously bad. His diction, timbre, cadence, and tone while reading the main text are actually pretty professional.. but he reads far too slowly (listen at 1.15X) and his voice-acting is legit *terrible* (it sounds like he's making fun of the individuals in the text - insipid whispery falsetto females, "surfer dude" impressions, and bad stereotypical "Jew" and "Gay" voices).
Compounding the problem: Wright has a habit of finishing sentences with laughably colloquial direct quotes. Combined with Shah's performance, profound evidenciary points end up generating nothing more than hilarity: "[serious tone] Batham started providing drugs to his patients [silly lisping cartoonish voice] '..sho he could fuck me..'"🤣

It's a good thing that this audiobook was offered for free. The jawdropping circumstances and discussion of problems in the addict treatment "industry" (legislated injection of huge money for therapy; lax regulation; etc) merits a listen - but some poor wording choices & Shah's brutal performance bring my rating down to 1.5 stars out of 10.
'Bad Therapist' is worth a listen - if only for the laughs - but for God's sake don't spend money on it.

Is.. Is this Parody?

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