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Noam Shpancer

Autor(a) de The Good Psychologist: A Novel

5 Works 150 Membros 18 Reviews

Obras de Noam Shpancer

The Good Psychologist: A Novel (2010) 145 cópias
The Good Psychologist 1 exemplar(es)
Iyi Psikolog (2015) 1 exemplar(es)

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Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Organizações
Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio

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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.
 
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markm2315 | outras 17 resenhas | Jul 1, 2023 |
Ein humorvoller und kluger Roman über die geheimnisvolle Welt der Psychotherapie Er ist Psychologe, sein Spezialgebiet die Angst. Am Tag praktiziert er, am Abend erklärt er Studenten, was eine gute Therapie ausmacht. Als er wenig begeistert eine Nachtclubtänzerin mit Auftrittsphobie als Klientin annimmt, ahnt er nicht, wie sehr deren Probleme und Geheimnisse auf sein eigenes Leben abstrahlen werden. Sie kommt freitags um vier, und für sie hat der Psychologe eine Ausnahme gemacht, denn eigentlich arbeitet er nur bis drei. Doch der Fall der Nachtclubtänzerin, die wegen Panikattacken auf der Bühne nicht mehr auftreten kann, interessiert ihn. Über ihren Fall kann er mit seiner Kollegin Nina sprechen. Das lässt Nina zu. Nicht aber, dass er über seine Liebe zu ihr redet. Obwohl es ein gemeinsames Kind gibt. Der Psychologe versucht, seine Gefühle im Zaum zu halten. Er predigt seinen Studenten, was ein guter Psychologe alles können muss. Was er auf keinen Fall tun darf. Und dann passiert es ihm doch: Die Grenze zwischen dem Persönlichen und dem Professionellen wird auf gefährliche Art verwischt. Ein köstlicher und lehrreicher Roman über die Widersprüche zwischen Theorie und Praxis, über das Chaos im eigenen Gefühlshaushalt und über das Einzige, was wirklich zählt im Leben: die Liebe in all ihren Erscheinungsformen.… (mais)
 
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Fredo68 | outras 17 resenhas | May 26, 2020 |
I loved this book. It isn't a mystery or a thriller so definitely don't expect either of these but rather it is a journal or diary. It is told anonymously to encompass every psychotherapist.
Alternating between his personal life, his teaching psychotherapy at the university and his professional practice the reader becomes "a fly of the wall" in the psychologist's life. It is real life, not glamorized or sensationalized but the events that might actually happen from paying a high price to get a piano tuner to tune an old piano or having a student help you to start your car.
I found it very refreshing. I would recommend it to anyone who is very interested in psychological theories and the psychotherapy process. You will also enjoy it if you believe life doesn't always end up "happily ever after" and that day to day activities are just as important as the exciting times in one's life.
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rxtheresa | outras 17 resenhas | Mar 19, 2011 |
Good premise, not great execution. He had an affair with a married colleague who decided to have a baby with him and raise it with her husband, and so then left our hero. Now he has a difficult patient in therapy and gets advice from his former lover, but then intrudes on her life, and then intrudes on his patient's life, but nothing much happened in either case. Very inappropriate therapeutic behavior, watching his patient strip and dance suggestively in front of him, and very cringe-making description of same.

The structure of the book, with lectures from his psychotherapy class interspersed, is again a good idea but poorly executed - the lectures were dry and rather elementary.
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bobbieharv | outras 17 resenhas | Oct 14, 2010 |

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Obras
5
Membros
150
Popularidade
#138,700
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
18
ISBNs
20
Idiomas
3

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