Lying on the Couch A Novel

If Freud or Jung had set out to write a psychological thriller, I doubt that either one could have come up with a yarn as taut and telling. - Los Angeles Times

Lying on the Couch is a witty, gripping and hugely entertaining novel from which the reader effortlessly learns a great deal about the theory and practice of psychotherapy. - David Lodge author of Therapy and The Art of Fiction

"A dazzling psychiatric whodunit ...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." - Los Angeles Times

[A] hilariously intricate tale ...This may be the funniest and most sensitive novel ever written about psychoanalysis. - San Jose Mercury News

[Yalom's] insight into his own profession is sharp and merciless, recalling both Oliver Sacks and Studs Terkel. This is a novel for anyone who wants to know how the mind of a psychotherapist really works. - San Francisco Chronicle