If you start this book you'll finish it quickly because once you're granted fly-on-the-wall access to an uber-realistic psychotherapy session it's not something you tend to walk away from in a hurry.

But if, as Freud said, it can turn hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness, as he thought was its raison d'etre, then fair dinkum. erm this was okay but I was expecting better, the client and counsellor scenario and the counsellors ideas felt abit to simplistic in the message that "we talk and thus everything falls into place with a happily ever after and we never again have that same problem" it doesnt so much acknowledge the fluency of the change and the chance that the presenting issues may come back and there is not always a permanent cure but rather a continous battle where we may have off days. All-in-all, if you were ever interested in a look behind the curtain of psychotherapy, this is the book for you. I really looked forward to reading this, and it was an interesting read, but I thought it was shoddy.The beginning was a bit lame but it became more interesting as it progressed, but I’m not sure how much I learnt (if anything). As she notes, there's no such thing as a perfect therapist; and she doesn't hesitate to note her fictional counterpart's mistakes along the way. 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.

James: "I am beginning to resonate with the idea that an unacknowledged feeling can rule me, whereas I can have more control over the ones I know about. As soon as he did so, and it took him a year, his Spanish girlfriend married him and he never stole anything again.However, I can imagine that for therapy students, such a book could be a great introduction to the process of psychotherapy, and spark off interesting debates. JUNKO GRAAT (illustrator) trained and worked as a graphic designer in Japan and came to England to study European horticulture. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

And I suppose, grudgingly, I have to acknowledge that when the princess could not get a wink of sleep on her fifteen mattresses because of the pea hidden under the first mattress, it was real discomfort she was feeling.Perry (she is a therapist herself) includes author's notes on almost every page that explain the importance of the scene depicted on the page. Who would think that a graphic novel (read here comic book) about psychotherapy would be a good idea? Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. Because of this the comic never takes off as a story and heightens the sense that it is an introductory-type pamphlet on psychotherapy to those interested in it.