Lying on the Couch cover art

Lying on the Couch

A Novel

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Lying on the Couch

By: Irvin D. Yalom
Narrated by: Tony Pasqualini
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Only £0.99 a month for the first 3 months. Pay £0.99 for the first 3 months, and £8.99/month thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Start my membership

About this listen

From the best-selling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept comes a provocative exploration of the unusual relationships three therapists form with their patients.

Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexual propriety with one of his clients. Marshal, who is haunted by his own obsessive-compulsive behaviors, is troubled by the role money plays in his dealings with his patients. Finally, there is Ernest Lash. Driven by his sincere desire to help and his faith in psychoanalysis, he invents a radically new approach to therapy - a totally open and honest relationship with a patient that threatens to have devastating results.

Exposing the many lies told on and off the psychoanalyst's couch, Lying on the Couch gives listeners a tantalizing, almost illicit glimpse at what their therapists might really be thinking during their sessions. Fascinating, engrossing, and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves listeners with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith.

©2014 Irvin D. Yalom (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Witty Funny Thought-Provoking

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Love's Executioner cover art
When Nietzsche Wept cover art
The Schopenhauer Cure cover art
The Development of a Therapist cover art
Sometimes Therapy Is Awkward cover art
Man’s Search for Himself cover art
Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy cover art
Client Centered Therapy cover art
Doing Psychotherapy cover art
Attachment in the Practice of Psychotherapy cover art
Ruritanian Rogues: Volumes 1-3 cover art
Attachment in Psychotherapy cover art
Mind Waves cover art
The Easytown Novels: Books 1-3 cover art
Live Free or Tri cover art
On Being a Therapist cover art
All stars
Most relevant
Another clever, witty and insightful offering from Dr Yalom. I have read / listened to all of his books and this one is up there with the best - bravo!

Pearls of wisdom from a natural storyteller

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It is true, it is not a psychology book. It has some insights and dad, and how psychology in modern therapy concepts have a evolved from uncle Freud, but it talks mostly about the contemporary necessity of the therapist being honest and present, and our emotional status being fully unlocked mate are existential subconscious worries.

It has interesting angles

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Yalom is one of my favourite writers, I had higher expectations with this book. It’s good but not his best. love’s executioner, When Nietche Wept and Becoming myself are way better than this one. In other words, don’t judge him from this Novel.

Not his best

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I am a training psychotherapist and was instructed to read the prologue as part of my course. I was hooked! such a page turner. a lot of fun if you're into psychotherapy.

riveting!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Brilliant book. Such an engaging unpredictable story full of characters that bring the themes of universal dilemmas to life. Yalom also manages to teach us much about the purpose and process of psychotherapy in the process. 5 stars!

Sooo clever!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews