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Robert U. Akeret
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Tales from a Traveling Couch: A Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients |
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English |
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Paperback |
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240 |
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1996-11-17 |
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0393314987 |
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W. W. Norton & Company |
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0.62 pounds |
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0.7 x 5.5 x 8.3 inches |
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2 jemmab (USA: ME), Mallory (USA: FL) |
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2 Keith (USA: NH), Becky K. (USA: IL) |
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Product Description
After thirty-five years in practice, prominent New York psychotherapist and author Robert Akeret found himself in the thrall of a single question: Did therapy make a real difference in his patients lives? So, on a sunny morning in April, Dr. Akeret got in his van and set off to visit his most memorable former patients--a journey "in search of story endings." And what remarkable stories they are...
Naomi, an abused young Jewish girl from the Bronx who transforms herself into a Spanish flamenco dancer named Isabella--what is she like now, in her mid-fifties?
What about Charles, who fell madly in love with a circus polar bear? Had he been able to resist his fatal psychosexual attraction?
What of Sasha, the dashing, prize-winning French novelist with writers block and a penchant for exploiting women? In the end, did his art prevail or his life?
And what became of Mary--did she ever "murder" again?
Like a brilliant psychological detective novel, this book tells its stories in fascinating detail while raising fundamental questions about psychotherapy.
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