Mia Ottosson wrote this book in Swedish. It was first published in Swedish in 2009, as Sexhealern.
The English translation was made using generative AI in 2025. For this 2026 edition, the English was checked paragraph by paragraph against Mia's Swedish original, and every place where the translation had drifted from what she wrote was corrected. Apart from those corrections, the story is as Mia wrote it in 2009.
The opening note and the afterword from Mia are new for this edition.
The narration
Narrated by an AI voice created with ElevenLabs. It is not Mia's own voice. The audiobook is in English: 24 chapters, 6 h 20 min.
The cover
The cover art, porcelain healer's hands mended with gold, was made with generative AI.
The Swedish original
Mia's book was first published in Sweden in 2009 as Sexhealern : lögner, svek och brott i andlighetens namn (Parthenon, ISBN 9789185044092). It is listed in Libris, the Swedish national library catalogue: the Libris record.
The Swedish 2026 edition, Den falske healern, is Mia's own text from 2009 under a new title, with clear print errors corrected.
Names
Some names in this book have been changed to protect people's identity.
Languages
One purchase includes the eBook in every language of the 2026 edition. The translations were made with AI from Mia's Swedish original and checked against it, but a passage can still read differently from what Mia meant. If you notice something in your language, please tell her.
- English: The False Healer, available
- Svenska: Den falske healern, available
- Deutsch: Der falsche Heiler, available
- Nederlands: De valse genezer, available
- Español: El falso sanador, available
- Français: Le faux guérisseur, available
- Italiano: Il falso guaritore, available