It has an alternate ending, added passages, a different description of Ivy and it's never stated that Ivy was really the reincarnation of Audrey Rose. There is a mystery about it - it gives multiple choice without forcing a conclusion on the reader. This is my favorite novel along with The Exorcist. It's everything I wished the book had been.
shareI've always hated the ending (would love to read your alternate version). It was a terrible and unnecessary way to end. Not to mention it was a flaw from the writer, not necessarily an expert on regression hypnosis.
I've searched about it and professional hypnotists said that when Ivy suffered the memory regression by hypnosis, there could not have been a lost of control by the hypnotist. At least, they had never heard of anything similar. They talked about a reincarnation case whose patient had also died in fire in a previous life (1830), but she was tied to a post, and it was possible to assure a total control of the situation, in order to avoid that the traumatic moment could put the patient at risk and they could bring her back to the present personality whenever they wanted to. Instead of damages they were able to accomplish relieve to the young woman's behavioral problems that existed up to that time.
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