One is bent on tricking Lash into a license-losing sexual transgression, another is a compulsive gambler who plays into Streider's obsession with money and status. Ernest Lash lashes himself with self-doubt, though he is very earnest. There's plenty of transference and counter-transference along the way, plus nice set pieces on dream therapy and other fun tropes. Oh how brilliant, she thought. As such, there's more than an air of self-serving to the whole enterprise.
Process is the therapist's magic amulet.
Yeah, plus it moves the plot along, and makes the therapist the dispenser of cures. Mass. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian, the Boston Globe and Lingua Franca. Sneak Peeks reviews forthcoming books. All titles may not be immediately available.