320 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 2012 by Ulverscroft.
The Good Psychologist insists on preserving an optimum clinical distance. He's always aware that the unshakeable 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.
Recommended. Author is Israeli psychologist; lives and teaches in Ohio. Book was written in Hebrew. There is an entertaining interview of him at the BBC. Well-crafted novel and introduction to psychotherapy. I haven't read anything like this since the heroic psychiatrist novels of the 40s and 50s (Snake Pit, Captain Newman, MD, etc.) - not really the same, though.
