On the Couch : : Great American Stories About Therapy

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I. Loss : If only Bert were here / Lorrie Moore -- Transference / Peter Collier -- Slatland / Rebecca Lee -- Surprised by joy / Charles Baxter -- Imaginary problems / Francine Prose -- II. Secrets and Lies : Keller's therapy / Lawrence Block -- The whole truth / Stephen McCauley -- III. Power and Dependence : The gentleman / Martha McPhee -- The fairy godfathers / John Updike -- The age of analysis / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Crazy for loving you / James Gorman -- The psychopathology of everyday life / Jonathan Baumbach -- Samaritan / Steven Barthelme -- IV. Limitations : The mysterious case of R / Frank Conroy -- Psychoanalysis changed my life / Amy Bloom -- Basil from her garden / Donald Barthelme -- V. Love : The patient / Barbara Lawrence -- I'm rubber, you're glue / Daniel Menaker -- Influenza / Daniel Menaker -- Afterword: Twentieth-century delphic mysteries / Sheldon Roth.
Nineteen stories about the therapist's couch. In Lorrie Moore's If Only Bert Were Here, the heroine cannot recover from the death of her beloved cat, while in John Updike's The Fairy Godfathers, the passion of two patients requires the presence of their respective therapists.

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