A fascinating carousel centered on psychotherapy is the second novel by the famous American psychiatrist and psychotherapist Irvin Yalom. The author reveals to the public eye what happens inside the office and in the minds of psychotherapists, their lives, their difficulties, their human nature. Humor and subtle irony dominate and alternate with biting descriptions of representatives of the psychiatric world. However, as psychotherapists are demystified, the allure of psychotherapy increases. Yalom presents it in a new light: it is a companionable journey towards achieving true human connection. In a cinematic way, with continuous twists and detective suspense, Yalom analyzes modern society and human relationships in his 'Couch'. 'On the Couch' is the free translation of the English title 'Lying on the Couch'. Yalom makes an untranslatable pun here with three different meanings: it first signifies the reclining of the analyzed on the psychoanalytic couch, as a symbol of psychotherapy. It implies the sexual act between patient and therapist, one of the central ethical issues posed and interpreted within the book, and finally refers to the concealment and distortion of truth, the lie that can infiltrate the psychotherapeutic process. The author methodically tackles all three of these issues, integrating them organically into a captivating fiction. [...] [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]