Lying on the Couch

Book: Lying on the Couch
Author: Irvin Yalom
Where I Read It: At work, in that undefined hour between opening the coffee shop and when normal people begin to want coffee.

What I Thought: Good effort on the part of one of the most sane and creative people working in the mental health field today. Having read some of his non-fiction, I often fantasized about becoming his patient. He would be able to save me for sure! Not the most convincing of characters, they seemed a little too two-dimentional, but I still made it through the whole thing.

Earnest Lash is a therapist who convinces a man to leave his wife, Carol. She decides to become his patient and seduce him, to the ultimate end of ruining his professional reputation and his life, just as she felt he did to her. Earnest's mentor, Marshall, plays into a con-artists scam, and then finds himself enlisting the help of the aforementioned Carol, who happens to be a lawyer. Small world, huh?

Pretty good, although his non-fiction is far more well-crafted.