Red Orc's Rage

About “Red Orc's Rage”

Red Orc's Rage (1991) is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer, part of his World of Tiers series. The book was inspired by the work of psychiatrist A. James Giannini, who used Farmer’s earlier novels as tools for role-playing and self-analysis. This method, developed at Yale University and expanded by Giannini at Ohio State University, is known as "projective psychotherapy." It involves placing patients in a fictional world that the psychiatrist can access, allowing direct exploration of the subconscious without confronting conscious resistance. The technique is structured but open to interpretation. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)