
Fascinating, engrossing and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves readers with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith. 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.Įxposing 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. Marshal, who is haunted by his own obsessive-compulsive behaviors, is troubled by the role money plays in his dealings with his patients.


Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Exposing the many lies that are told on and off the psychoanalysts couch, Lying on the Couch gives readers a tantalizing, almost illicit, glimpse at what their therapists might really be. Lying On The Couch was quite a bit different from some of Yaloms other books thinking specifically. Lying On The Couch: A Novel - Ebook written by Irvin D. Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexual propriety with one of his clients. Yalom, does a good job of creating very different types of characters and he knows A LOT about psychotherapy because he is one. Fascinating, engrossing and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves readers with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith.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. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. Thats when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no ones memory. Marshal, who is haunted by his own obsessive-compulsive behaviors, is troubled by the role money plays in his dealings with his patients. Yalom, Lying on the Couch 373 likes Like Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. Yalom, M.D.

Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexual propriety with one of his clients. 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.
