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Published Jul 2012
320 pages
Genre: Biography/Memoir
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Ever wonder just who that person in the chair opposite you in the therapist's office is, and how he or she got that way?
Wonder no more. This is a compelling memoir about the stressful, yet never less than exciting, education of a psychotherapist in the midst of institutional dysfunction that bids fair to become to psychotherapy what Scott Turow's One L is to lawyering and Samuel Shem's House of God is to doctoring.
"[T]his is a useful, sometimes memorable, look at the vagaries of a psychologist's training and role in an overwhelming institutional setting." - Publishers Weekly
"Neither a moving personal history nor a crusading insider's look into a broken system, Lockman's book lacks that certain storyteller's spark. In the end, her patients spin better tales." - Library Journal
"Before returning to graduate school Lockman worked as a magazine journalist, a skill she puts to good use in this insider's look at the practice of psychiatry in a poorly funded, understaffed public institution." - Kirkus Reviews
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Darcy Lockman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Psychology Today and Rolling Stone, among others. She lives with her husband and baby daughter in Queens.
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