Therapy: A Novel

By Steven Schwartz

Book Overview

Casper "Cap" Kaplan practices psychology in a Colorado college town. His clients are a difficult and invasive group-he can't seem to keep them from intruding on his own life or each other's. Most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 015100062X
• ISBN13: 9780151000623
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Wise, Funny, Moving

Schwartz delves into the soul of a man who wants to do good and be good by facing all the demons but his own. His character Cap is by turns funny and deluded, smart and confused. Just like most of us, only Schwartz goes deep into the dilemma of the healer--how do you heal your own wounds? I truly love this book for its sly insights into human nature, both comic and tragic, and for its ability to move with ease from one to the other, as fast as real life does. A wise, funny, and moving book.

A very involving, real story

I read this book two years ago, and think about the characters still...like people I knew. The story was that believable to me. Steven Schwartz drew me in to this story, and I took my time reading because I didn't want it to end!

A humorous, touching and memorable novel.

I could not put down this book. Schwartz successfully combines humor and emotion, creating memorable characters that stay with you. The character of Julian, one of the protagonist's clients, has to be one of the most fascinating and achingly human characters I have encountered in a long time. The protagonist's parents, and the therapist that mentored him, provide a marvelous counterpoint of humor to the darker elements of the novel. Schwartz told me something moving about that which we inherit from our parents, and that which we might promise to our children.

A terrific read, gripping characters, beautiful prose

I read this book in the summer of 97, and seven months later, I still think often of one of the characters -- an epileptic, college student who is a patient of the main character, a therapist. That character is one of the powerfully drawn I've ever read -- a young man who falls in love with his sex-obsessed college professor, who is also a patient of the main character. This is the type of the book, you want to encourage all your friends to read. It's wonderful. I was very excited when I saw in the bookstore this weekend that Schwartz has a new book - A Good Doctor's Son.