Posted by kiddo on February 9, 2002, at 0:20:09
In reply to Entertaining fiction by Irvin D. Yalom, posted by trouble on February 8, 2002, at 23:41:20
This one I'm reading regardless of the consensus (sp?)
Maybe I'll "Shrink" my shrink :-)
> LYING ON THE COUCH (existentialist psych) Irvin D.Yalom
> 1996 HarperPerennial (Harper Collins) 13 bucks
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> BLURBS:
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> "A dazzling psychiatric whodunit...Yalom brings to his latest work of fiction an authentic mastery of the techniques of psychotherapy AND a real genius for showing the reader what is really going on inside the head of a psychiatrist while he or she is shrinking someone." Los Angeles Times
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> "A hilariously intricate tale... This may be the funniest and most sensitive novel ever written about psychoanalysis." San Jose Mercury news
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> "Yalom's insight into his own profession is sharp and merciless, recalling both Oliver Sacks and Studs Terkel. This is a novel for anyone who wants to know how the mind of a psychotherapist really works." San Fransisco Chronicle.
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> Do Believe The Hype.
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