Selected Fiction Books
The Freud Scenario
In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a script for a movie about Sigmund Freud. The Freud Scenario, found among Sartre's papers after his death, is the result. A fluent portrait of a... (more)
Eat the Evidence: A Journey Through The Dark Borough's Of A Paedophilic Cannibal's Mind
Eat The Evidence tells the story of violent serial pedophile and murderer. It does not attempt to take the reader inside the mind of a serial killer. Rather it attempts to take the serial perpetrator... (more)
In-gratitude and Other Poems
'Where does the creative act come from? No one knows. All the rash of literature in recent times from artists, scientists and theologians on the subject of consciousness finds its origin in this... (more)
Couch Tales: Short Stories
A psychoanalyst sits in his consulting room waiting for the next patient. Thoughts, feelings and anxieties about his own current life begin to assault him. Partly as a way of dealing with the crisis... (more)
Red Parrot, Wooden Leg
This is an original first novel of an accomplished poet: erotic, humorous, exotic and sensuous. It describes the adventures of two young writers, set in the midst of political repression,... (more)
Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
Using the medium of six case studies, Dr Irvin Yalom reveals the intricacies of psychological landscapes, and the unique dynamics of clients and therapists. 247 pages.... (more)
Where Three Roads Meet
It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in... (more)
Unexpected Lessons in Love
With the wit of Marina Lewycka, the piercing observation of Jane Gardam, and the bittersweet charm of Mary Wesley, this will appeal to all who loved Major Pettigrew's Last Stand or The Guernsey... (more)
Theraplay and Other Plays
The main characters of these five plays by Christopher Bollas struggle to survive in a post "Catastrophe" world. As they go about ordinary life it is clear that something insidious has both preceded... (more)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
This is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths... (more)
The Therapist's Cat
This is a poignant, charming and amusing fiction story that raises very moral questions about our interaction with animals and how this may impact on us at a later date. Psychotherapist Pete... (more)
Fugues on a Funny Bone
Witty, poignant and penetrating, Jan Woolf's stories - or fugues, as she likes to think of them - take the reader on an episodic journey through the linked lives of children and adults in a London... (more)
Something to Tell You
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the... (more)
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me
Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme mania, and terrified that medication would cause her to lose creativity, she... (more)
The Seducer: A Novel
This psychological thriller shows both the hypnotic appeal and the deadly danger of psychopathic seduction. This novel traces the downfall of a married woman, Ana. Feeling trapped in a lacklustre... (more)
The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel
From the author of 'Lying on the Couch' and 'When Nietsche Wept' comes the world's first accurate group-therapy novel, a mesmerizing story of two men's search for meaning.... (more)
The Interpretation of Murder
"The Interpretation of Murder" is an inventive tour de force inspired by Sigmund Freud`s 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protegeé and rival Carl Jung. When a wealthy young debutante is... (more)
The Adventures of Inspector Canal
Psychoanalysts make the best detectives! When it comes to divining motives, deciphering ambiguous pronouncements, detecting delusions, and foiling the tricks memory plays, famed French analyst... (more)
The Spinoza Problem: A Novel
In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical novel. A psychiatrist with a deep interest in philosophical issues, Yalom jointly tells the story... (more)
Keep Breathing Out
Dr David Benn, a young Dublin Jew, arrives at Saint Elba’s Mental Hospital in Dargle. He’s the new locum, and it’s 1969, when strange things were actually happening. A time when some challenging... (more)
The Purloined Love: Further Adventures from Inspector Canal’s New York Agency
Love… The inimitable Inspector Canal grapples with it in all its forms—new love, soured love, unrequited love, impossible love—in this new collection of mysteries by Bruce Fink. Enchantment,... (more)
Odor di Murderer: More Adventures from Inspector Canal’s New York Agency
Love… The inimitable Inspector Canal grapples with it in all its forms—new love, soured love, unrequited love, impossible love—in this new collection of mysteries by Bruce Fink. Enchantment,... (more)