Books like Lying on the Couch by Irvin D. Yalom

The Gift of Therapy is a practical guide that compiles Irvin D. Yalom’s 35‑year experience as a psychiatrist into 85 thoughtful, often original therapeutic ideas for counsellors and patients.

A mystery set in California that follows the interwoven lives of artists confronted with a missing persons case and the psychological separation of their identities.

When a seasoned psychotherapist faces mortality, he revisits a former patient who claims to have found healing through the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, leading to a clash of therapeutic approaches in a San Francisco group setting.

When Los Angeles celebrity author Hope Devane is murdered, retired psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware is recruited by homicide detective Milo Sturgis to uncover the hidden truths behind her volatile public persona and academic life, revealing a web of betrayal and obsession.

Three ex‑prisoners in California plan one final heist, each battling their own demons amid the three‑strikes law and a looming legal threat.

FBI special agent Pierce Quincy teams with ex‑cop Rainie Connor to chase a psychopathic killer who preys on the minds of his victims, forcing them to confront the darkest fears close to home.

After his wife is killed in a hit‑and‑run, a grieving husband uses an artist’s sketch to hunt the driver, even befriending the driver’s sister as part of an elaborate revenge plot.

Ten tales, by Dr. Yalom, re-create breaking through a patient's uncertainty to the ultimate truth.

Dr. Alex Delaware investigates the haunting dream of Lucy Lowell, a woman traumatized by a serial‑killer trial, and uncovers a hidden childhood memory that might link to a past murder.

In this anthology of Irvin Yalom's most influential work to date, readers will experience the diversity of his writings with pieces that range from illustrative case studies, to theoretical models, and, of course, to literature. Included are carefully edited selections from Dr. Yalom's masterful writings on group and existential therapy as well as excerpts from Love's Executioner, When Nietzsche Wept, and Lying on the Couch. Dr. Yalom has written an introductory essay the Reader, new section introductions, and three new essays on narrative. In both his nonfiction and his fiction, Dr. Yalom uses the lens of psychotherapy to explore human nature and shows us that the line between the true and the imagined is not always easy to distinguish. What has driven Dr. Yalom from the beginning of his career is a powerful interest in narrative and it is this passion that ties these selections together. It is possible to come to The Yalom Reader from many different backgrounds and be richly rewarded. Readers of Dr. Yalom's clinical texts will be intrigued by the fictional works; general readers will gain a greater understanding of and appreciation for the practice of psychotherapy.

The parallel stories of the philospher Benedictus Spinoza and the nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg exploring both philosophy and history.

In "Creatures of a Day," psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom examines the profound challenges of finding meaning and confronting mortality through real patient case studies.