Dr. Hartmut Brandt

Digitalized photo of Dr. Hartmut Brandt found in a medical journal.

Miharu's psychiatrist, who was identified by Harold Kebba's research as Dr. Hartmut Brandt, was a doctor trying to cure Miharu Hamano of her spectrophobia. After his encounter with Miharu's True Nature, he quit his job an disappeared soon after.

## Appearance & Personality

Dr. Hartmut Brandt was a middle-aged, slender doctor. He had a large forehead due to his reclining hairline and was slightly cross-eyed. He was a calm-spirited man who was a firm believer in science and treatment of phobiae through incremental exposure. Having lost his father in the World War II, he was especially interested in curing phobiae that developed through traumata, something he observed in many people in Germany shortly after the war.

## Biography

### Prior to the events of Ebrugh Report 1

Dr. Hartmut Brandt was born on September 18th, 1936. After growing up near Frankfurt am Main as the son of a pastor, he moved to the city to study psychology. Soon, Dr. Hartmut Brandt became a respected researcher and psychiatrist with a lot of experience in clinical pratices and treating cases of severe and also less known phobiae. He wrote his dissertation on a case study of acrophobia (the fear of heights), which he successfully defended on May 4th, 1964. He managed to show that incremental confrontational therapies can have positive benefits on patients suffering from acrophobia and proved in the following years, that his research could be applied to other phobiae as well.

### During the events of Ebrugh Report 1

#### First clinical session with Miharu

Dr. Brandt first met Mihar on 12th June, 1978, when her mother brought her to his practice. Miharu described her sudden fear of reflections, leading the psychiatrist to the conlcusion that Miharu had experienced something traumatic. Miharu tells him about a black hand mirror she found in a bush and that she looked inside and saw a strange shape. Thinking that he will be able to successfully treat her, Dr. brandt accepts Miharu as his patient.

#### Second clinical session with Miharu

After her spectrophobia got worse, Miharu agrees to try confrontational therapy. As this is successful, she also agrees to be hypnotized to relive her memory of the mirror. Dr. Brandt is a bit confused about the quick progress, though is also happy about it. When Miharu can not identify the shape during the hypnosis, Dr. Brandt is even more confused, but as Miharu seems almost cured, he sends her home without any second thoughts.

#### Visiting Miharu after her fit

After Miharu attempted to end her life, he visits her in her cell in the mental institution. Miharu tells him about her horrific experiences during a power outage, though Dr. Brandt, distraught by the situation, thinks only about keeping her locked up to keep her safe from herself. After another power outage, Miharu suddenly changes into a different entity, causing Dr. Brandt to flee in shock from the cell.

#### Aftermath

After the disappearance of Miharu, Dr. Brandt wrote what has been published as first Ebrugh Report to a newspaper in Frankfurt, though nobody took it serious. In the article, he tried to warn people of the black mirror and its horrid effects. After the traumatic experience in the cell, Dr. Brandt admits to hearing the voice of Miharu's True Nature at night and feeling her weight in his bed.

### During the events of Ebrugh Report 9

Miharu's case was mentioned in the documents found by a student in Rome after he did research on the disappearance of Marco Dagio. It spoke of Dr. Hartmut Brandt disappearing from his room during a night, a statement which was confirmed by a missing person report published in a local newspaper.

## Skill Set

Dr. Brandt posessed great psychological knowledge and diagnostic skills. He was fluent in German and Italian and worked as a voluntary helper for the "Sozialpsychiatrie Frankfurt am Main", an organization helping people in need of psychological or psychiatric consultations.

## Trivia

* Dr. Hartmut Brandt first encountered acrophobia when his uncle suffered it after crashing with a Bf 110 near Dortmund after being shot down in a dog fight.
* Dr. Hartmut Brandt only wore the tie his grandmother gifted him for his communion.