Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy - Hardcover

Perry, Philippa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241461782 ISBN 13: 9780241461785

Publisher: Penguin Life, 2020

Synopsis

'A gem' - The Evening Standard
'Pure book joy. Deep thinking made digestible & doled up with lashings of wit' Bernardine Evaristo on Twitter

'So smart and interesting!' Fearne Cotton on Instagram

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Ever wanted to know what really happens in a therapist's consultation room?

Bestselling author Philippa Perry (The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read) turns her keen insights to the power of therapy. This compelling study of psychotherapy in the form of a graphic novel vividly explores a year's therapy sessions as a search for understanding and truth.

Beautifully illustrated by Flo Perry, author of How to Have Feminist Sex, and accompanied by succinct and illuminating footnotes, this book offers a witty and thought-provoking exploration of the therapeutic journey, considering a range of skills, insights and techniques along the way.
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'I loved it. I smiled and laughed. And nodded. One to read' Susie Orbach, author of In Therapy

'(Full of) wit and good sense (...) Philippa is a tonic' Rachel Cooke, Observer

About this title

About the Author

Philippa Perry (Author)
PHILIPPA PERRY is an artist and psychotherapist as well as a TV and radio presenter. She is the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read and The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read?(*And Maybe a Few You Don’t), published by Cornerstone Press. Her books have been translated in over 40 languages.

Flo Perry (Illustrator)
Flo Perry is a writer and illustrator, former BuzzFeed editor and expert on making illustrations go viral. She was born and raised in the wilds of North London and still lives there with two lovely homosexual housemates and a terrible cat. Her book How to Have Feminist Sex was published in 2019.

From the Back Cover

Bestselling author Philippa Perry (The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read) turns her keen insights to the power of therapy. This compelling study of psychotherapy in the form of a graphic novel vividly explores a year's therapy sessions as a search for understanding and truth. Beautifully illustrated by Flo Perry, author of How to Have Feminist Sex, and accompanied by succinct and illuminating footnotes, this book offers a witty and thought-provoking exploration of the therapeutic journey, considering a range of skills, insights and techniques along the way.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Life
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241461782
• ISBN 13: 9780241461785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Perry Flo
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152