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In a weekly group therapy session, Lily Bard and the group members find "a woman dead, killed in bone-chilling fashion and deliberately left on display to send a twisted message. Who would commit such a horrendous crime, and who is the intended recipient of the message?"--Jacket.
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2023.
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Español
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Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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If Avery Chambers can't fix you in 10 sessions, she won't take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal--she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault--and almost absorb the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband's death. Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple--until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things, both because she loves her husband and for the sake of their 8-year-old son. After...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Based upon the psychological life of philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, the author presents a narrative of psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld who seeks out one of his former patients, Philip Slate, who claims he was cured through Schopenhauer's methods.
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English
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Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's Border Crossing, the basis for the major motion picture The Drowning, portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland.
Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the river Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to save a young man who they happen to notice just before he jumps into the icy current. Tom's spontaneous act saves the...
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2022.
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English
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"When a once promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous particle physicist's memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt after failing to deliver a novel, he's grown distant from his wife--a successful A.I. researcher--and is haunted by an overwhelming dread he describes as "The Mist." Desperate for relief, he undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and emerges to find his world transformed: joy suffuses every...
8) Jade
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1999.
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English
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Jade has listened to the other girls in the therapy group share their secrets and pain, but Jade's past is too painful to share.
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English
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Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. With this mesmerizing tale of one woman's potent affliction, award-winning Finnish writer Laura Lindstedt makes her American debut. Narrated by an unnamed, ungendered therapist who leaps at the chance to employ their most experimental methods, My Friend Natalia offers a gripping examination of the power dynamics always present but rarely ever spoken about in therapy. "Something flared within me," the therapist...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"An unflinchingly honest, wickedly funny, and heartfelt debut about a down-on-his-luck gay man working out how he fits into the world, making up for lost time, and opening himself up to life's possibilities. Danny Scudd is absolutely fine. He always dreamed of escaping the small-town life of his parents' fish and chip shop, moving to London, and becoming a journalist. And, after five years in the city, his career isn't exactly awful, and his relationship...
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
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[2022]
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English
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"Jennifer Pritchett feels increasingly invisible and left behind as her friends move on to the next steps in their lives. As she goes to therapy to figure out how to bloom in her own right, her boyfriend, Nick Carrington, finds himself being the one left behind. Jennifer wants their relationship to have more intimacy, but he can't help but feel like he's being compared to others--and found wanting. Can they each get what they need out of this relationship?...
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Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Emily Glass knows she's neurotic. But she's got it under control. Sort of. She dons compression socks when she flies (because, you know, deep vein thrombosis) and responds to people routinely overestimating her age with more Lifespin classes and less gluten. Thankfully, she also has David, the wonderful man she'll soon call husband--assuming they can survive wedding week with her wildly dysfunctional family"--Amazon.com.
13) The maidens
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"Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered...
14) Into the garden
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Wildflowers ; 5
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English
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Four girls are bound together by the dark secrets they shared in group therapy.
16) How to be eaten
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English
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"Classic female fairy tale characters, including Little Red Riding Hood and Gretel, are reimagined into modern women who meet in a basement support group to process their traumas and realize they have more in common than they ever supposed."--
17) Lost in the lake
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Bloodhound Books
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2018.
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English
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"Amateur viola player Rosie Chandler is the sole survivor of a crash which sends a group of musicians plunging into a lake. Convinced the accident was deliberate, but unable to recall what happened, she is determined to recover her lost memories and seeks out clinical psychologist, Dr Samantha Willerby. But Rosie is hiding something... Sam is immediately drawn to the tragic Rosie and as she helps her piece the fragments together, the police find disturbing...
18) Therapy: a novel
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Viking
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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A spoof on today's obsession with health. Unwilling to accept the aches and pains of old age, Laurence Passmore, 58, an English TV writer, rushes from one doctor to another, becoming progressively depressed with the result that his marriage and work suffer. Eventually he finds solace in religion.
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Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis étranger-winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Halibut on the Moon traces the roots of mental illness in one man's life as he attempts to anchor himself to the places and people that once shaped his sense of identity. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California from Alaska and surrenders himself to the care of his...
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