I read this thinking it would be an interesting comic and, as a comics fan of both popular and indie varieties, gave this a try. She worked in the mental health field for several years before writing her graphic novel, Couch Fiction which lays bare the process of psychotherapy, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. By the end of the book he has been for over 30 sessions and it's funny, tender and remarkably true to life. The humour injected by the author and the marvellous treatment of the topic in the graphic novel form (with fabulous illustrations), make this a delightful, as well as an informative read.

This gentle but firm dispelling of the "all-knowing" image of the therapist is an especially good thing for anyone thinking about therapy to understand from the first. And I suppose, grudgingly, I have to acknowledge that when the princess could not get a wink of sleep on her fifteen mattresses because of the pea hidden under the first mattress, it was real discomfort she was feeling. Sedikit banyak membantuku meraba-raba apa yang terjadi di masa kecil dan bagaimana dampaknya bagiku sekarang.

It is more of a resource than a tale- it gives interesting insights into the unsaid elements of a therapy session. Sunday Times bestselling book The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read was published in 2019 and has been translated into over 40 languages. She wrote this book because she wanted to describe what life can be like as a therapist and as a client. I'm training as a counsellor and found it to be a really useful read - the drawings are also great at showing what could be going on in someone's mind throughout the therapy process.

Maybe I would've expected it to be more inclusive of the kinds of questions raised during therapy, but the limitation was imposed by the anecdote, which is understandable, but makes it fall short on certain accounts.First off, the "characters" never seem real but just cyphers for the author to put into situations that can put forward psychotherapy instruction. All-in-all, if you were ever interested in a look behind the curtain of psychotherapy, this is the book for you. She actually seems to be a real therapist, moving too fast at times and taking some things too personally at times. Told in a witty and thought-provoking manner, each engagingly illustrated scene is accompanied by deft commentary. However, I can imagine that for therapy students, such a book could be a great introduction to the process of psychotherapy, and spark off interesting debates.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The set up with this story gives us an intimate and intense scenario, which makes us feel like we’re eavesdropping on a private session, which is effectively what the reader is doing. This is a graphic novella about one particular psychotherapy experience from the point of view of both parties. It's an interesting graphic novel with extensive notes accompanying each page that follows one chap as he goes through therapy in hopes of ridding himself of a particular compulsive behavior. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.

Possibly good to those with a passing interest in psychotherapy, but not a great comic and not a great read. Couch Fiction allows you to peep through the key-hole of the therapy room door and, more than that, read the minds of the protagonists.

If you start this book you'll finish it quickly because once you're granted fly-on-the-wall access to an uber-realistic psychotherapy session it's not something you tend to walk away from in a hurry. With most of the pictures, illustrated by an unknown artist Junko Graat, there are footnotes that provide more theoretical reflections, and explain the importance of a scene. Perry has an accessible, clear writing style that lays everything out without dumbing it down, always reminding the reader that her story is introductory in nature, offering the basics so as to give a good idea of what the process of therapy entails.The drawings and dialogue are enough on their own, but the whole project is really enhanced by text footnotes/commentary at the bottom of most pages which gives lay readers some insight about what they're seeing from a clinical perspective.