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Excellent book - it seems that the novel was written to flesh out the issues that face modern therapists and detail some of the worst case scenarios possible for any training psychoanalyst. Issues of sexual impropriety, gifting, excessive adherence to psychoanalytic method over connection, coaching patients toward their addictions, and fraud are essential themes of this book. Sometimes Yalom's voice can be heard in all of the characters and the scenarios are a little pat, but the underlying message rings true. The teaching tenets of honesty, propriety, and the impact of therapeutic connection are the goals of the book and all of its characters.


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Lying on the Couch A Novel Irvin D Yalom 9780060928513 Books Reviews

I loved this book! I'm a psychologist and know dr. Yalom from his group therapy and other professional writings. This book is full of feeling, touching human connections, personal transformation,humor, action and the power of psychotherapy. It is helpful for therapists as a learning opportunity and great for other readers.
his best book in my opinion!!!
Very well written. A very intriguing way of analyzing the complexity of human relations, connections and effects. Make you think and this is the most interesting aspect of this book
I liked this book well enough, but not as much as The Schopenhauer Cure, which is why it got only four stars. I'm a counseling student AND a fiction writer, so I read Yalom's books for counseling insights and story-escapes. This one was interesting, but did not match the storyline impact of The Schopenhauer Cure.
Okay, I had to order this book for school (I'm studying to be a LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor). I was excited to have to buy a non-fiction book instead of a fiction book for school, especially when I saw the cover of the book and the reviews. If anything, even if the book is terrible, it looks great on my nightstand (see picture) -). My schooling starts end of August and I have already read about 100 pages of this book, I have not finished it obliviously but I feel I can give enough of a review/perspective to hopefully help others.
Pros
The writing is crisp, engaging in third person and have different "voices" because the story deals with different characters.
The author, Irvin D. Yalom, does a good job of creating very different types of characters and he knows A LOT about psychotherapy because he is one, the author is currently in his 80's and according to Wiki page, still cuts a strong figure in his pictures and I can imagine he is (or was?) a bit of a Don Juan if you will with the ladies. I base that presumption on the fact that the first character in the book is an elderly man who is a psychotherapist that gets involved with a very promiscuous/off kilter patient. I imagined the author relating to this since he wrote the book n 1996 and as of 2016, he's 85, so 20 years ago, mid 60's he could foresee a man in his 70's still being able to catch a young and sexually active woman.
But that's not what this book is about really, so far, the book seems to be about how as patients, as clients, as therapist etc. we all experience things in our own way. What makes Irvin (the author) so good is that he is able to not just create multi-dimensional characters but SO many of them! It's as if the author himself has tons of different personalities in him (he is a Gemini ...ha, so who knows). So far this is why I DO like the book.
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Cons
Where I struggle with the book is Irvin sometimes, especially in the first chapter, writes too much and makes you want to get to the point. Also, as interesting and varied some of his characters are? Some of a bit stereotypical.

I have no idea where the book will end but it's much like a series of short stories strung together yet with most, if not all, the characters somehow being connected to each other.

I look forward to the end of this book, not because it's so bad, but rather because much like ourselves, as human beings, it is multi-layered and unpredictable.
I was fascinated from the first moment with this novel. It's a very interesting expose of psycho-therapy - although you don't have to be involved with psycho-analysis to be able to appreciate the story.

The main protagonist, Ernest Lash, is just as his name suggests; earnest. He is vulnerable, erotic, sincere and trying his very best to rise above the professional detachment of his peers. He is experimenting with being totally honest with his patients, and in doing so, discovers the same pit-falls and dangers experienced in any truly intimate relationship.

The novel tracks the gamut of human foibles, neatly shared between it's believable cast of characters. Pomposity, megalomania, addiction, betrayal, lust and revenge all rear their ugly heads - tempered by the redemptive actions of forgiveness, compassion and sincerity. A very satisfying and informative journey into the miasms of the human mind.

I don't know why I was surprised that Yalom was such a good writer. Perhaps I expected the dryness that often accompanies the writing of many other professionals in their fields of expertise. Not so in this case. Yalom cleverly draws the reader in from the first paragraph and keeps us turning pages until the last.

Highly recommended.
Yalom really gets into the minds of how therapists think about their clients in this book. It's also a drove through the pitfalls and double binds that psochotherapists can think themselves into personally and professionally. I couldn't put it down! Yalom's experience and reputation as a brilliant therapist feeds into the storylines and informs the narrative.
Excellent book - it seems that the novel was written to flesh out the issues that face modern therapists and detail some of the worst case scenarios possible for any training psychoanalyst. Issues of sexual impropriety, gifting, excessive adherence to psychoanalytic method over connection, coaching patients toward their addictions, and fraud are essential themes of this book. Sometimes Yalom's voice can be heard in all of the characters and the scenarios are a little pat, but the underlying message rings true. The teaching tenets of honesty, propriety, and the impact of therapeutic connection are the goals of the book and all of its characters.