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Lying on the Couch

A Novel

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Lying on the Couch

Written by: Irvin D. Yalom
Narrated by: Tony Pasqualini
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From the best-selling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept comes a provocative exploration of the unusual relationships three therapists form with their patients.

Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexual propriety with one of his clients. Marshal, who is haunted by his own obsessive-compulsive behaviors, is troubled by the role money plays in his dealings with his patients. Finally, there is Ernest Lash. Driven by his sincere desire to help and his faith in psychoanalysis, he invents a radically new approach to therapy - a totally open and honest relationship with a patient that threatens to have devastating results.

Exposing the many lies told on and off the psychoanalyst's couch, Lying on the Couch gives listeners a tantalizing, almost illicit glimpse at what their therapists might really be thinking during their sessions. Fascinating, engrossing, and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves listeners with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith.

©2014 Irvin D. Yalom (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological
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This book was unlike any other Yalom text and may not appeal to all. It revolved around several ethical issues like that of boundaries crossing, transference, therapist's feelings towards client, multiple relationships like exploitation in client-therapist relationship, etc. I found the book most interesting during the end, when stories of different characters tied up and therapy session conversations had real nuggests of wisdom; the beginning and middle were very descriptive, often boring too. However, the narrator did an exceptional job making the listening a good experience!

Ethical concerns in a fictionalized tale

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