Fictional therapists

3/4/2019

See my posts at the counsellors cafe for a discussion of fictional therapists by theme:

Fictional therapists: an introduction

Why do fictional therapists get it wrong?

Famous therapists in fiction

A (fictional) therapist as friend or family member

Becoming Someone: my journey through
psychology, therapy and fiction

Fictional couple counselling

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.

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.
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
Forna A. The Memory of Love. London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
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.
Greengrass J Sight London: John Murray, 2018
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
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.
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.
Kureishi H. Something to Tell You. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.
Leary A. The Good House. London: Corvus, 2013.
Lewis L. Don’t Stand So Close. London: Corgi, 2014.
Lodge D. Therapy. London: Vintage, 2011.
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
Parks T. Thomas and Mary. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2016.
Parks T. In Extremis London: Harvill Secker, 2017
Quatro J. Fire Sermon. London: Picador, 2018
Seethaler R. The Tobacconist. London: Picador, 2016.
Riley G First Love London: Granta, 2017
Taylor D. Herring Girl. London: Oneworld, 2014.
Theroux M. Strange Bodies. London: Faber and Faber, 2013.
Ullman E. By Blood. London: Pushkin Press, 2012.
Versteeg W. The Boy. London: Hope Road, 2016.
Vickers S. The Other Side of You. 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.
Yalom D When Nietzsche Wept New York: Harper Perennial, 1992/2003

7 Comments

Fictional therapists

Index of fictional therapists