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"Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown in upstate New York. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions...
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
c2014.
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English
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Like any decision that we make in life, making the choice to seek therapy involves mastering a large body of knowledge, sifting through the thousands of therapists in the field and finding the right one, understanding different psychological approaches to counseling and what might work best for any one person, learning a variety of skills on how to be in therapy, and exploring one's most inner self with a complete stranger. Most people are unfortunately...
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2019.
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English
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"Ruth Hartland is the director of a trauma unit, a psychotherapist with years of experience, wise and respected by her peers. But professional skill is no guard against private grief. The mother of grown twins, she is haunted by the fact that her beautiful, difficult, fragile son Tom, a boy who never "fit in," disappeared a year and a half earlier. She cannot give up hope of finding him, but feels she is living a kind of half-life, waiting for him...
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
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©2015.
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English
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"Yalom describes his patients' struggles-- as well as his own-- to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful life, and how to reckon with its inevitable end"--Dust jacket flap.
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Caitlyn Montgomery Bandeaux wakes one morning drenched in blood, her head pounding. Worst of all, she can't remember what happened the night before -- when her estranged husband was murdered. Now the police want answers. Tormented, Caitlyn turns to her sister for support and is warned not to talk to the handsome new psychologist in town.
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B
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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LLEGA LA ESPERADA CONTINUACIÓN DE EL PSICOANALISTA LA OBRA MÁS VENDIDA Y EMBLEMÁTICA DE JOHN KATZENBACH Han pasado 5 años desde que el doctor Starks acabó con la pesadilla que casi le cuesta la vida y que le destrozó la que tenía logrando vencer a aquel que se hace llamar Rumplestiltskin y a sus hermanos Virgil y Merlin. Ahora Ricky Starks continúa con su labor como psicoanalista instalado en Miami. Sin embargo, Rumplestilskin ha regresado...
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Aevo UTP, an imprint of University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"We need a revolution in care. Damaged tells the painful yet inspiring story of a dedicated psychiatrist and his most challenging patient. In the authentic voices of Dr. Robert Maunder and his patient, Isaac, we hear how childhood trauma harms Isaac's health for the rest of his life. Providing readers with a window into the private world of long-term psychotherapy, we also see how deeply patients can affect the doctors who care for them. Dr. Maunder...
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Other Press
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2011.
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English
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"Emma Forrest is an incredibly gifted writer, who crafted the living daylights out of every sentence in this unforgettable memoir. I can't remember the last time I ever read such a blistering, transfixing story of obsession, heartbreak and slow, stubborn healing."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love."
11) El psicoanalista
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[Ediciones] B
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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""Feliz 53 cumpleaños, doctor. Bienvenido al primer día de su muerte." Así comienza el anónimo que recibe Frederick Starks, psicoanalista con una larga experiencia y una vida tranquila. Starks tendrá que hurgar en su memoria y emplear toda su astucia para, en quince días, averiguar quién es el autor de la amenazadora misiva. De no conseguir su objetivo, deberá elegir entre suicidarse o ser testigo de cómo, uno tras otro, sus familiares y...
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Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Daniel Abend is a single parent in New York City, with a successful therapy practice and a comfortable life: an apartment on the Upper West Side, a teenage daughter, a peaceful daily routine. When one of his patients commits suicide, it is a tragedy, but one easily explained: The young woman suffered from depression and drug addiction. But soon after, Daniel receives an ominous note that makes him question the circumstances surrounding his patient's...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"This Close to Happy is the first account to endeavor to tell the story of what it feels to suffer a lifetime's worth of clinical depression from the inside out and from a woman's point of view"--
"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver." This Close to Happy--Merkin's rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer...
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Confer Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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The story of the childhood and youth of Peter Heller, one of the first children to be psychoanalyzed by Anna Freud. To tell this story Vivian Heller draws on a wealth of primary sources, including her father's case history and his internment diary, using novelistic techniques to bring the past alive. While in Anna's care, Peter's native Vienna slides into Fascist barbarism and he is forced to navigate an increasingly dangerous world. He flees to England...
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Asked to treat Friedrich Nietzsche for his suicidal despair following a broken love affair, eminent Viennese physician Josef Breuer devises an ingenius approach that would force Nietzsche to apply his own theories to cure himself.
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