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"It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance."
- Henri De Regnier
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060928514
Release Date: Jan 12, 2001
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This novel is set in California. "Ernest Lash is a by-the-books psychotherapist until he meets Carolyn, . . . {a patient} who offers a phony name and story, hoping to seduce him and ruin his career because she believes he told her husband to leave her. . . . Also among the cast . . . are Shelly, a compulsive gambler who sees another analyst so he can sue for malpractice and recoup his debts, and Peter, a slick swindler able to persuade the same psychiatrist to part with a great deal of money in an investment scam." (N Y Times BookRev)
| | | | From The Publisher
It is the "twilight of the shrinks." Disciples of Freud and Jung sandbag against the rising tide of new age therapies and wring their hands over the unreliable narratives of patients who "lie" on the couch. Managed health care threatens the very future of practice. The contemporary therapist has much to worry about: patients who seduce their therapists with money, sex, fanatical devotion - and all the other deadly sins in a game of musical chairs around the seat of power in the therapeutic session. In a daring spin on his lifelong devotion to chart the inner lives of patients in his intimate case histories, Dr. Yalom now turns the tables on the other half of the therapeutic relationship - the therapist from an age of secrets, who "interprets" the boundaries of sexual propriety. Or Marshal, haunted by his own obsessive-compulsive behaviors, uncertain of the role of money in his relationship with patients. And finally, there is Ernest Lash, who, saved ultimately by his sincere desire to help people, risks a totally open, authentic relationship with a patient and assumes that to be healing in and of itself. Their stories are rendered here with great affection and ruthless recognition.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 1 Average Rating:
Funny, funny story
-- A reviewer, from Tucson, May 8, 2000
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
"A witty, gripping and hugely entertaining novel from which the reader effortlessly learns a great deal about the theory and practice of psychotherapy." —David Lodge
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