Lies on the Clinic Chair Author: [USA] Irvin Yalom Publisher: China Machine Press

Psychologists have always been considered the best observers of human nature. Who would have thought that they would also be easily deceived? When the visitor walks to the treatment chair full of lies, the outcome will be far beyond everyone's expectations. The conversation during the treatment process is both true and false. Between transference and counter-transference, deception and betrayal, what is exposed is the true human nature.

Psychological counselors are also human beings and have the same emotional and personality weaknesses as ordinary people. When they get into trouble, how should they heal themselves and how should they responsibly guide their clients?

In the book, Irvin Yalom uses carefully designed and cleverly coherent screenwriting techniques to explore transference and countertransference in the process of psychotherapy, childhood experiences, the principles of psychotherapy, how to promote the most important changes in clients, how to supervise the training of psychotherapists, etc. It is the most practical clinical practice book on psychological counseling, with ingenious and rigorous plot conception, a series of interlocking mechanisms, ups and downs, and high drama.

"Lies on the Chair" has the common features of all of Yalom's novels: a strong professional background, a writing style full of metaphors and humor, and an unexpected ending. In terms of biting satire, "Lies on the Chair" is the best among all of Yalom's novels.

Irvin Yalom, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, authority on group psychotherapy in the United States, master of contemporary psychiatry, is known as one of the three representatives of existential therapy along with Victor Frankl and Rollo May. He was awarded the Edward Stryker Award in 1974 and the American Psychiatric Association Award Fund in 1979. As one of the most famous, widely circulated and influential masters of psychotherapy in the world today, Irvin Yalom not only published classic textbooks such as Group Psychotherapy and Existential Psychotherapy that inspired countless psychotherapists, but also created popular psychology books such as When Nietzsche Wept, The Executioner of Love, Schopenhauer's Therapy and Lies on the Clinic Chair that are deeply loved by ordinary readers.

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