*Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy* by Philippa Perry (author) and Flo Perry (illustrator) Publisher: CITIC Press Group

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"I guess you're going to ask me about my childhood. That's a waste of time, because I lacked nothing in my childhood." - Client

"Can you give an example of a childhood experience?" - Psychologist

Want to know what really happens in a psychologist's office?

Do you need to talk to a psychologist?

How does a consultation, sitting opposite each other on a sofa, begin, progress, and end?

What is the psychologist really thinking during the consultation?

James, a middle-class Londoner and a respectable, well-groomed barrister, has an embarrassing and uncontrollable bad habit.

He decides to change the situation, and one day, he finally plucks up the courage to knock on psychologist Pat's door.

Their therapy process lasted for a year. This book selects 11 sessions from 43 consultations, covering the pre, mid, and post stages of psychotherapy. The image section on each page records the conversation between the two, as well as their true inner thoughts, presenting both the surface and the inner world simultaneously; the text section below provides objective analysis and introduces relevant psychological knowledge.

This is a thought-provoking therapeutic journey that teaches us that there is no hierarchy of suffering; all of a person's pains, big or small, deserve to be taken seriously.