Maybe if they had spent more time at the beginning constructing a more plausible scenario it wouldn't have seemed quite as abnormal. But perhaps not. At least most of the artifacts he keeps in his house don't have his photograph. There's a really creepy sequence when he's roaming through the Raven, poking around, and you just know Janette's going to pop up. And a bizarre scene where she's trying to hypnotize him, but he somehow partially breaks loose in a sort of free-association stream.
Vampiric suggestion is much less powerful than it was at the beginning of the season.
And occasionally the flashbacks weren't very related to his thoughts. But I suppose this could be explained away, since his subconscious is trying ot rebuild these facts that he's been hypnotized into forgetting. Surely he's not seeing some sort of similarity. I also couldn't understand why LaCroix was asking Schanke all these things, as a psychiatrist might, nor why Schanke answered him truthfully. Something about their whole conversation was a bit wrong.