The Good Psychologist
A Novel

Noam Shpancer has written a heady and unique novel that takes its primary form as therapy sessions between a psychologist and a stripper. The psychologist has a limited clinical schedule in his anxiety clinic and teaches a university class to augment his income. He also plays weekly basketball with......more

Skilled not only in his unusual approach in narration, Noam Shpancer is also quantifiably knowledgeable as a clinical psychologist and a psychology professor. In his masterful debut novel, he displays the intricacies of successful clinical psychological intervention and professorial academic allocuti......more

This book consists of a fictional psychologist's lectures to his therapy class, the narrative of his own life which involves his endless longing for a married female supervisor with whom he had an affair and a child, and his treatment of a stripper with a sexual abuse history who is having trouble s......more

This is an interesting novel about a psychologist who is good at his craft, and even better at teaching it. But living life is not easier for a good psychologist than for his clients and some of his decision making, especially involving the married lover, are immature and irresponsible. The protagon......more

Bu kitap bir yere varmıyor, sonu belli değil diyenleri anlamış değilim... 😊 Dili çok akıcı ve sade anlatım ve kurgu son derece dengeli, teorik ile pratik içiçe geçmiş... Sofi'nin dünyasının Psikoloji versiyonu diyebilirim.........more