Full list (alphabetically by author surname) of the fictional psychotherapists and clinical psychologists I’ve encountered on page, and where on Annethology you can find out more about them (updated on the date above). If you know of any significant omissions, please let me know via the comments box below.
Bold text represents the therapist is a key character in the novel and is not necessarily an endorsement of how the character is portrayed.
Bold text represents the therapist is a key character in the novel and is not necessarily an endorsement of how the character is portrayed.
- Ali M Love Marriage London: Virago, 2022
- Arikha A Where to Find Me Richmond: Alma Books, 2018
- Attenberg J All Grown Up London: Serpent’s Tail, 2017.
- Barba A Such Small Hands London: Portobello books, 2017
- Barker P. Border Crossing. London: Penguin, 2001.
- Barker P. Regeneration. London: Penguin, 1992.
- Bennett R. Zugzwang. London: Bloomsbury, 2008.
- Blain G. Between a Wolf and a Dog. London: Scribe, 2016.
- de Botton A The Course of Love. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2016.
- Brownrigg S. The Delivery Room. London: Picador, 2007.
- Coe J. The House of Sleep. London: Penguin, 1998.
- Conlin J. The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days, Edinburgh: Black and White Publishing, 2017.
- Costello I. Paris Mon Amour, London: Literary Sofa, 2017
- Cunningham P. The Trout. Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2016.
- de Vigan D Loyalties London: Bloomsbury, 2019
- East P Little White Lies London: HarperCollins, 2020
- Eaves W. Murmur London: CB editions, 2018
- Emerson T. She Chose Me London: Legend Press, 2018
- Essbaum JA. Hausfrau. London: Mantle, 2015.
- Evans K. The Art of the Imperfect. Scarborough: Avenue Press, 2014.
- Farrell LG The Wacky Man. London: Legend Press, 2016
- Faulks S. Human Traces London: Vintage, 2005
- Feigel L The Group London: John Murray, 2020
- Forna A. The Memory of Love. London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
- Françoise S. Stories We Tell Ourselves London: Head of Zeus, 2018
- Galgut D The Promise London: Chatto & Windus, 2021
- Gameson M. The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (Deceased) London: Salt, 2017.
- Goodwin A. Sugar and Snails. Derby: Inspired Quill, 2015.
- Goodwin A. Underneath. Derby: Inspired Quill, 2017.
- Goodwin A. Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home. Derby: Inspired Quill, 2021.
- Greengrass J Sight London: John Murray, 2018
- Greenberg J. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden New York: St Martin’s Press, 1964/2009
- Gur B. The Saturday Morning Murder New York: HarperPerennial, 1993
- Harris S The Definition of Us London: Piatkus 2018
- Harwicz A Die, My Love Edinburgh: Charco Press
- Hawkins P. The Girl on the Train. London: Doubleday, 2015.
- Healey E. Whistle in the Dark. London: Viking Penguin, 2018
- Holnqvist N The Unit London, Oneworld Publications, 2010
- Honeyman G Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine London: HarperCollins, 2017
- Hornby N. Juliet Naked. London: Penguin, 2009.
- Hubbard S Rainsongs London: Duckworth Overlook, 2018
- Hughes K. The Key London: Hodder Review, 2018
- Hustvedt S. The Sorrows of an American. London: Sceptre, 2009.
- Iweala U Speak No Evil London: John Murray, 2018
- Jensen L. The Rapture. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
- Johnston BA. Remember Me like This. London: Two Roads, 2014.
- Joosten M Gravity Well London: Scribe
- July M. The First Bad Man. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2015.
- Kalfar J. Spaceman of Bohemia London: Sceptre, 2017
- Katzenbach J. The Analyst. London: Bantam Press, 2002.
- Keneally T. Crimes of the Father London: Sceptre, 2017.
- Kirshenbaum B. Rabbits for Food London: Serpent’s Tail, 2019
- Kureishi H. Something to Tell You. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.
- Leary A. The Good House. London: Corvus, 2013.
- Lerner B. The Topeka School. London: Granta, 2019
- Lewis L. Don’t Stand So Close. London: Corgi, 2014.
- Lodge D. Therapy. London: Vintage, 2011.
- Low M Asylum London: Legend Press, 2019
- Maher K. Last Night on Earth. London: Little Brown, 2015.
- Matlwa K. Evening Primrose, London: Sceptre, 2017.
- McCleen G. The Offering. London: Sceptre, 2015.
- Messud C The Burning Girl London: Fleet, 2017
- Mooney D The Great Unexpected London: Legend Press, 2018
- Moskovich Y Virtuoso London: Serpent’s Tail, 2019
- Naspini S Oxygen Europa editions, 2021
- Parks T. Thomas and Mary. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2016.
- Parks T. In Extremis London: Harvill Secker, 2017
- Quatro J. Fire Sermon. London: Picador, 2018
- Riley G First Love London: Granta, 2017
- Roth P Portnoy’s Complaint London: Vintage, 1967
- Seethaler R. The Tobacconist. London: Picador, 2016.
- Smallwood C The Life of the Mind London: Europa Editions, 2021
- Statovci P My Cat Yugoslavia London: Pushkin Press, 2017
- Taylor D. Herring Girl. London: Oneworld, 2014.
- Teir P The Summer House London: Serpent’s Tail, 2018.
- Theroux M. Strange Bodies. London: Faber and Faber, 2013.
- Thomas B A Good Enough Mother London: Faber and Faber, 2019
- Thompson S. Jott London: JM Originals, 2018
- Ullman E. By Blood. London: Pushkin Press, 2012.
- Vaught A Killing Hapless Ally Manningtree: Patrician Press, 2016
- Versteeg W. The Boy. London: Hope Road, 2016.
- Vickers S. The Other Side of You. London: Fourth Estate, 2006.
- Vickers S. Miss Garnet’s Angel London: Fourth Estate, 2006.
- Whitaker P. You. Cromer: Salt, 2018
- Wolitzer M. The Interestings. London: Vintage, 2014.
- Wood J Upstate London: Jonathan Cape, 2018
- Wood N. Azanian Bridges, Alconbury Weston: Newcon Press, 2016.
- Woodruff SG The Lobotomist’s Wife Seattle: Lake Union Publishing, 2022
- Yalom D When Nietzsche Wept New York: Harper Perennial, 1992/2003
- Yalom ID Lying on the Couch New York: HarperPerennial, 1997