Lying on the Couch: A Novel

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. 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 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. Fascinating, engrossing and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves readers with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith.

• When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession
• Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
• Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
• Ethics in Counseling & Psychotherapy
• Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy
• The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel
• Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
• The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
• Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions, Updated with 2014 ACA Codes (Book Only)
• Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis