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If Freud or Jung had set out to write a psychoanalytic thriller, I doubt that either one could have come up with a yarn as taut and telling as "Lying on the Couch," a dazzling psychiatric whodunit by one of the leading theorists and practitioners of psychotherapy in our own times.
Stanford-based psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom is an influential teacher and theorist of psychotherapy and author of scientific texts and popular works on the subject, including the best-selling "Love's Executioner" and "When Nietzsche Wept." So 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 else.
The troubled hero of "Lying on the Couch" is a young psychiatrist and analyst-in-training named Ernest Lash whom we follow into the labyrinth of the human...