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Original Title:	Lying on the Couch
ISBN:	0060928514 (ISBN13: 9780060928513)
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Lying on the Couch

Irvin D. Yalom

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

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Title	:	Lying on the Couch
Author	:	Irvin D. Yalom
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	July 18th 1997 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Psychology. Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Literature. American. The United States Of America

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From the bestselling 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 that are told on and off the psychoanalyst's couch, Lying on the Couch gives readers a tantalizing, almost illicit, glimpse at what their therapists might really be thinking during their sessions. Fascinating, engrossing and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves readers with a denouncment of surprising humanity and redemptive faith.

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A seemingly demanding lecture, judging by its proportions. However, the incursion in both scientific, which is fairly scholastic, and mundane aspects in the life of the psychotherapist all under the spectrum of a well devised plot and ingeniously humored language, make the story relishing. The psychotherapist is first of all human, in Yalom's book. He is built, within the story, in the reflecting image of three models. The decrepit master/professor, struck down by his own iconoclastic desire for

This book had been on my "must-read" list (self-appointed just because it looked interesting, not because I'd heard anything about it) for quite some time. I finally sat down and read it, and I have to say, I'm not sure that I got it. Maybe it went over my head, or maybe I'm over-analyzing something that wasn't meant to be that profound. There were parts that really engaged me, while other parts that didn't were interesting enough for me to keep on going, but ultimately I'm not sure that it was

It paints a fairly disgusting picture of psychoanalysis and many of its practitioners with disagreements turning into schisms, jealousies, revenge, aggressive posturing, ambition, greed and unethical treatments and abuses of the patient/practitioner relationship. I guess you could say it puts a human face on both patients and practitioners. It also shows an incredible naivete on the part of practitioners; don't they research their clients beforehand? Maybe not in the 1990's when the book was

I'm going to go ahead and give this five stars. It's not a perfect book, certainly not from a literary point of view. It was didactic at times, occasionally draggy with lengthy lecture-like dialogue and inner monologue, and some of its plot twists were highly contrived. But I don't think Yalom was trying to write a perfect novel, or if he was, that goal was secondary. What he was trying to do, according to an interview I read, is carve out a new genre -- what he calls the "teaching novel." It's

Very good one. It was recommended by a friend who studies psychology.And in the end everything turns nice. Everyone gets what should get.

Well of course I enjoyed this book very much both coz I am very interested in psychoanalysis and also coz it was a very fluent and teaching story and very easy to read. Also I really enjoyed the whole story and how everyone was being analyzed independently regardless of being the patient or the doctor.At one point it made me feel how we can all analyze one another and how we will all benefit from it.I cant say much about the literary point of view of this book since I dont know much in that

5/5 stars