The Good Psychologist

by NoamShpancer (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2012

  $4.56

  The good psychologist teaches the principles of control and objectivity, strategies by which we evade pain, memory and lies. Meanwhile in the Center for Anxiety Disorders he dispenses wisdom, and coaxes truth from one patient in particular: a vulnerable, frightened nightclub dancer whose life is haunted by secrets.

  But as he treats and guides and teaches, the good psychologist becomes increasingly disturbed by his own private torments: unrequited love, an unacknowledged child, growing loneliness and despair. Soon he is adrift as, softly, he leads the reader into the dangerous yet seductive territory of the human heart.

• Used

  Paperback
  2011

  $3.47

  The Good Psychologist has a regular 4 o'clock appointment with an exotic dancer who has lost her nerve to strip. Soon, he discovers she is even more distraught over losing access to her daughter. Meanwhile, over at the college where he teaches a class on the principles of therapy, the Good Psychologist, a measured man, warns against rushing at clients with salves and solutions. One must, he insists, preserve an optimum clinical distance, always aware that the unshakable conviction that disaster is approaching has become the real disaster in the lives of the anxious. But take a closer look at the Good Psychologist. Who is that waving to him seductively from his past? What's beckoning him to rekindle extinguished hopes for the future? As the shell of his detachment begins to crack, he finds himself pulled where the boundaries between professional and personal are dangerously blurring. With a distinctive voice of huge appeal even to those uninterested in psychology, and pulsing with humour and humanity, The Good Psychologist enters the volatile terrain of the human heart: to move or be still; to defy or to obey; to let go or hold on.

• New

  Paperback
  2012

  $23.81

  The good psychologist teaches the principles of control and objectivity, strategies by which we evade pain, memory and lies. Meanwhile in the Center for Anxiety Disorders he dispenses wisdom, and coaxes truth from one patient in particular: a vulnerable, frightened nightclub dancer whose life is haunted by secrets.

  But as he treats and guides and teaches, the good psychologist becomes increasingly disturbed by his own private torments: unrequited love, an unacknowledged child, growing loneliness and despair. Soon he is adrift as, softly, he leads the reader into the dangerous yet seductive territory of the human heart.