![]() ![]() Of course very precocious teenagers exist and unlikely coincidences do happen, but when they show up in a novel, it usually feels forced to me and takes me out of the fictional dream. I don't read a lot of fiction these days, mostly because I tend to lose interest with implausible characters and/or events, such as sixteen year-olds that have the wisdom of Yoda or plot twists that require highly unlikely and convenient coincidences that just happen to involve the main characters. 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.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. Marshal, who is haunted by his own obsessive-compulsive behaviors, is troubled by the role money plays in his dealings with his patients. 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. ![]()
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