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متلازمة فريجولي

منال معشي

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Premise labels used: psychologist protagonist, rare disorder, psych ward, patient care, wrong identity, medical case, wounded teen, treatment refusal, hospital secret

Setting labels used: hospital setting, psych ward, single-location setting, contemporary setting

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K-Pax

Gene Brewer · 1995 · K-Pax

A psychiatrist records sessions with a patient who claims to be an alien from K-PAX, and the truth stays uncertain.

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Premise labels: alien claim · psychiatric patient · identity mystery · delusion or reality · utopian world · therapeutic inquiry · human-alien encounter · mysterious abilities

Setting labels: psychiatric hospital · New York City · Manhattan · contemporary setting · outer space · alien world · utopian planet · single-site setting

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Ultraviolet

R.J. Anderson · 2011 · Ultraviolet

A teen in a psychiatric ward tries to prove she’s sane while the truth behind a missing classmate keeps changing.

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Premise labels: teen mental institution · missing girl · murder suspicion · unreliable narrator · hidden ability · synesthesia · extraordinary powers · identity crisis

Setting labels: mental institution · psychiatric hospital · teen ward · contemporary setting · Canada · small-town high school · science-fiction reality

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The Strange Case of Jane O.

Karen Thompson Walker · 2025

A psychiatrist and a new mother untangle a strange case of missing time, uncanny memories, and reality-bending doubts.

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Premise labels: mysterious illness · memory loss · psychological mystery · psychiatric case · unreliable mind · missing time · premonitions · hallucinations · dissociative fugue · single motherhood · postpartum crisis · hyperthymesia · hidden trauma · reality questioning · disappearing protagonist

Setting labels: New York City · Brooklyn · Prospect Park · urban contemporary · library setting · psychiatry setting · single-parent household · hospital · daycare · public transit · pandemic-adjacent

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Thalamus

Ursula Poznanski · 2018

After a severe accident, a speech-impaired teen in rehab uncovers disturbing nighttime secrets and changes in himself.

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Premise labels: rehab center · medical mystery · brain injury · mysterious recovery · communication impairment · body autonomy · experimental treatment · hidden truth

Setting labels: rehabilitation center · isolated facility · hospital setting · clinical setting · nighttime setting · contemporary setting

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False Memory

Dean Koontz · 2001

A married couple confronts escalating phobias and missing time, uncovering a sinister mind-control scheme.

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Premise labels: mind control · false memories · phobia outbreak · psychiatric manipulation · brainwashing · subconscious control · mysterious illness · ordinary couple under threat

Setting labels: contemporary · urban domestic · therapist office · medicalized setting · real-world setting · psychological realism · small-circle social world

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Things Not Seen

Andrew Clements · 2004 · Things

A 15-year-old boy wakes up invisible and teams with a blind girl while his family races to explain and reverse it.

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Premise labels: invisibility · blindness · missing child · secret identity · coming of age · disability parallel · finding oneself

Setting labels: contemporary · school setting · library setting · home setting · urban setting

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The Chef

Andy Weir · 2010

A woman in a hospital remembers an explosion, and a doctor’s questions slowly turn a simple recovery into something darker.

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Premise labels: hospital recovery · memory loss · twist ending · unreliable account · hidden truth · dark secret · double meaning

Setting labels: hospital · aftermath of explosion · domestic setting · contemporary setting · real-world setting

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Distance: 0.2457

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Everyone We've Been

Sarah Everett · 2016

After an accident, a teen violinist loses memories and sees an invisible boy, leading her into a buried secret about her past.

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Premise labels: memory loss · memory erasure · missing memories · mysterious boy · medical mystery · accident aftermath · first love · identity crisis · family secret

Setting labels: contemporary · small town · high school · clinic setting · medical facility · post-accident · present day · teen life

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The Glamour

Christopher Priest · 1984

An amnesiac cameraman retraces a lost period of his life, uncovering love, deception, and a reality no one can quite see.

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Premise labels: amnesia · invisibility · love triangle · missing memory · identity crisis · hidden reality · psychological puzzle

Setting labels: British countryside · hospital setting · London · France · 1980s Britain · contemporary setting · alternate reality · psychological reality

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Legion

Brandon Sanderson · 2012 · Legion

A genius with hallucinatory expert companions tackles a mystery involving a camera that can capture the past.

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Premise labels: genius detective · hallucination superpower · missing person · missing object · specialized alter egos · psychological mystery · science-fiction mystery · problem solving

Setting labels: contemporary setting · real world setting · mansion

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Hospital

Han Song · 2023 · Hospital

A business trip turns nightmarish when a mysterious illness traps one man inside a dystopian hospital system.

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Premise labels: mystery illness · hospital system · medical bureaucracy · patient powerlessness · corrupt institution · labyrinthine system · survival quest · escape attempt · medicalized society · systemic critique

Setting labels: dystopian future · hospital setting · medical institution · C City · China · bureaucratic system · speculative future · authoritarian society · medicalized world · labyrinthine interior

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Lost and Found

Orson Scott Card · 2019 · Micropowers

A shunned teen with a tiny finding-lost-things power gets pulled into friendship and a dangerous missing-child case.

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Premise labels: minor powers · finding lost things · misunderstood teen · missing child · outcast protagonist · compulsion to return items · supportive friendship · school ostracism

Setting labels: high school · school setting · contemporary world · our world · police investigation · support group setting · family home

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