The Good Psychologist by Noam Shpancer

THE GOOD PSYCHOLOGIST 
has a regular 4 o'clock appointment with an exotic dancer who has lost her nerve to strip. Soon he discovers she is even more distraught over losing access to her little daughter. Meanwhile, over at the local college where he teaches a night class on the principles of therapy, the Good Psychologist, a measured man, warns his students against rushing at clients with salves and solutions. One must, he insists, preserve an optimum clinical distance and rigorous protocols, while remembering always that the unshakable conviction that disaster is approaching has become the real disaster in the lives of the anxious.

But take a closer look at the Good Psychologist. For who is that waving to him seductively from his past? And what's beckoning him to rekindle extinguished hopes for the future? As the shell of his detachment begins to crack, he finds himself pulled into unfathomable waters where the boundaries between the professional and the personal, between help and harm, are dangerously blurring.

With a wonderfully distinctive voice that pulses with humour and humanity, The Good Psychologist leads the reader on a journey into the volatile terrain of the human heart, examining fundamental questions of the soul: to move or be still; to defy or to obey; to let go or hold on.

Genres: Contemporary - Psychology - German Literature - Roman - American - Drama - Literary Fiction - Israeli/American Author