Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients

After thirty-five years in practice, prominent New York psychotherapist and author Robert Akeret found himself in the...
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Author: Robert U. Akeret
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Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients by Akeret, Robert U.

Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients

$60.60

Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients

$60.60
Author: Robert U. Akeret
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 into 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. For example: Naomi, an abused young Jewish girl from the Bronx who transforms herself into a Spanish flamenco dancer named Isabella; Charles, the animal trainer who fell madly in love with a circus polar bear; and Seth, a man obsessed with sadomasochistic fantasies, yet drawn to the love-in culture of the sixties.

Like a brilliant psychological detective novel, this book tells stories in fascinating detail while raising fundamental questions about psychotherapy. Returning home with his "story endings," Dr. Akeret finds that his journey has reshaped his ideas of what it means to have a rich and satisfying life.



Author: Robert U. Akeret
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/01/1996
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.47w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780393314984

About the Author
Akeret, Robert U.: - Robert U. Akeret received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University and his certificate in psychoanalysis from the William Alanson White Institute where he trained with Rollo May and Erich Fromm. He has worked in the counseling services at Columbia University, the City College of New York, and is a past President of the Association of Psychoanalytic Psychologists.

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