num_pages: 240
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.
language: English
title: Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients
titlecomplete: Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients
genres: Biography, Psychology, Medical, Nonfiction, Memoir, Contemporary
ratings_count: 455
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company