Lying on the Couch, Irvin D. Yalom
Lying on the Couch, Irvin D. Yalom
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Lying on the Couch

Author: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrator: Tony Pasqualini

Unabridged: 15 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2015


Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Loves 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 therapya 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 psychoanalysts' couch, the Lying on the Couch by Irvin D. Yalom audiobook 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.

Author Bio

Irvin D. Yalom is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco. He is the author of many books, including Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, The Gift of Therapy, and When Nietzsche Wept.

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