Indira Sharma Character Analysis in The Silent Patient

Indira Sharma is one of the therapists at the Grove. She is the person who interviews Theo for his new job, and as such, she often acts as an informal mentor and guide. Indira supports Theo’s dogged focus on helping Alicia, and she helps Theo push back against Christian’s more medication-based approach.

Indira Sharma Character Timeline in The Silent Patient

The timeline below shows where the character Indira Sharma appears in The Silent Patient. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

Empathy, Identification, and Boundaries Theme Icon

...any of this more personal backstory. Instead, Theo responds to his interviewer—a kindly therapist named Indira Sharma—by emphasizing the amount of training he has gone through. He is offered the job,... (full context)

Theo recognizes the other therapists. There is Indira, who interviewed him, and Christian, a former colleague from Broadmoor. Theo and Christian have never... (full context)

Theo and Indira are able to work together to shift the conversation, inviting Elif to discuss the difficulties... (full context)

Silence vs. “The Talking Cure” Theme Icon

A few hours later, Theo runs into Indira in the halls; she jokes that the place is like a maze, and brings him... (full context)

...his neck, where Alicia had tried to strangle him—and then he heads into Diomedes’s office. Indira, Christian, and Stephanie are also there. Stephanie is angry that Theo was alone with Alicia,... (full context)

Stephanie wants Theo to stop therapy, but Indira, Diomedes, and Theo all believe that Alicia’s attack is actually a sign of progress. Over... (full context)

...he agrees that they have tried to do “too much, too soon.” Though Theo and Indira both insists that over-medicating Alicia is not the solution, Diomedes is worried that one more... (full context)

On Stephanie’s orders, Indira and Theo are cleaning out Alicia’s room at the Grove; it is unlikely she will... (full context)

Indira has finished packing up the room. Frantically, Theo realizes that he has been distracted and... (full context)