DBT With Sherlock Holmes Volume IV: A Self-Help Mystery Series That Teaches Skills Through Story

A Note to the Gentle Readerfrom Dr. John H. WatsonThere are some mysteries which do not begin with a footprint, a telegram, or a cry in the night. They begin instead with a feeling one cannot explain.A kindness unsettles us. A request fills us with guilt. An old sorrow rises suddenly in the presence of some harmless present circumstance, and before we quite understand what has happened, the past has taken its seat beside us.It was my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes who first taught me that a feeling, however powerful, is not always proof. It may be evidence, certainly, but evidence must be examined with patience before it is permitted to become a conclusion.Within these pages I recount two further cases in which Holmes and I investigate not only the facts before us, but the hidden patterns by which grief, shame, obligation, and old wounds may shape a life long after their first cause has passed.Should you, dear reader, have ever found it difficult to receive kindness, to set down a burden that was never yours to carry, or to pause between what you feel and what you conclude, then perhaps you may find companionship in these accounts.The game is afoot.- Dr. John H. Watson221B Baker StreetLondon