Lying on the Couch

A Novel

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Tony Pasqualini

From the best-selling 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 told on and off the psychoanalyst's couch, Lying on the Couch gives listeners a tantalizing, almost illicit glimpse at what their therapists might really be thinking during their sessions. Fascinating, engrossing, and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves listeners with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith.

©2014 Irvin D. Yalom (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

My best on Audible!

Can’t tell you how sad I am that I’ve finished this book-like losing a new friend! Not only a great story but quite informative on the workings of psychotherapy! Tony P. Is just so talented-I hope he narrates many more books!! Thanks for a great ride!!

Good insight into the world of psychology

Very engaging book, easy to listen for any audience interested in the psychology domain. Even though very few phrases are the of specific terminology, the book can also be interesting for professional therapists.

Love it

Light to read and interesting angle to therapy. Wish there is more twist to come

great book!

wish there was a sequel! would make a great tv series. as a therapist this is an excellent training manual.

A stimulus towards inner reflection

My first -- but not last -- book by this author, it provides insight into how a brilliant psychoanalyst (the author himself, as well as his main character) can discover the inner motivations for the way we think and act. All this is done within a fabric of fine humor and even elements of adventure and suspense. I cannot exaggerate how much I enjoyed this work. The reading was rather slow and awkward and I set the controls to 1.25x.