Index of fictional therapists

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.

1. Ali M Love Marriage London: Virago, 2022
2. Alther L Other Women, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986
3. ​Arikha A Where to Find Me Richmond: Alma Books, 2018
4. Attenberg J All Grown Up London: Serpent’s Tail, 2017.
5. Barba A Such Small Hands London: Portobello books, 2017
6. Barker P. Border Crossing. London: Penguin, 2001.
7. Barker P. Regeneration. London: Penguin, 1992.
8. Bennett R.  Zugzwang. London: Bloomsbury, 2008.
9. Blain G. Between a Wolf and a Dog. London: Scribe, 2016.
10. de Botton A The Course of Love. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2016.
11. Brownrigg S. The Delivery Room. London: Picador, 2007.
12. Coe J. The House of Sleep. London: Penguin, 1998.
13. Conlin J. The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days, Edinburgh: Black and White Publishing, 2017.
14. Costello I. Paris Mon Amour, London: Literary Sofa, 2017
15. Cunningham P. The Trout. Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2016.
16. de Vigan D Loyalties London: Bloomsbury, 2019
17. East P Little White Lies London: HarperCollins, 2020
18. Eaves W. Murmur London: CB editions, 2018
19. Emerson T. She Chose Me London: Legend Press, 2018
20. Essbaum JA. Hausfrau. London: Mantle, 2015.
21. Evans K. The Art of the Imperfect. Scarborough: Avenue Press, 2014.
22. Farrell LG The Wacky Man. London: Legend Press, 2016
23. Faulks S. Human Traces London: Vintage, 2005
24. Feigel L The Group London: John Murray, 2020
25. Forna A. The Memory of Love. London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
26. Françoise S. Stories We Tell Ourselves London: Head of Zeus, 2018
27. Galgut D The Promise London: Chatto & Windus, 2021
28. Gameson M. The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (Deceased) London: Salt, 2017.
29. Goodwin A. Sugar and Snails. Derby: Inspired Quill, 2015.
30. Goodwin A. Underneath. Derby: Inspired Quill, 2017.
31. Goodwin A. Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home. Derby: Inspired Quill, 2021.
32. Greengrass J Sight London: John Murray, 2018
33. Greenberg J. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden New York: St Martin’s Press, 1964/2009
34. Gur B. The Saturday Morning Murder New York: HarperPerennial, 1993
35. Harris S The Definition of Us London: Piatkus 2018
36. Harwicz A Die, My Love Edinburgh: Charco Press
37. Hawkins P. The Girl on the Train. London: Doubleday, 2015.
38. Healey E. Whistle in the Dark. London: Viking Penguin, 2018
39. Holnqvist N The Unit London, Oneworld Publications, 2010
40. Honeyman G Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine London: HarperCollins, 2017
41. Hornby N. Juliet Naked. London: Penguin, 2009.
42. Hubbard S Rainsongs London: Duckworth Overlook, 2018
43. Hughes K. The Key London: Hodder Review, 2018
44. Hustvedt S. The Sorrows of an American. London: Sceptre, 2009.
45. Iweala U Speak No Evil London: John Murray, 2018
46. Jensen L. The Rapture. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
47. Johnston BA. Remember Me like This. London: Two Roads, 2014.
48. Joosten M Gravity Well London: Scribe
49. July M. The First Bad Man. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2015.
50. Kalfar J. Spaceman of Bohemia London: Sceptre, 2017
51. Katzenbach J. The Analyst. London: Bantam Press, 2002.
52. Keneally T. Crimes of the Father London: Sceptre, 2017.
53. Keyes M Grown Ups Dublin: Penguin, 2021
54. Kirshenbaum B. Rabbits for Food London: Serpent’s Tail, 2019
55. Daniela Krien The Fire
56. Kureishi H. Something to Tell You. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.
57. Leary A. The Good House. London: Corvus, 2013.
58. Lerner B. The Topeka School. London: Granta, 2019
59. Lewis L. Don’t Stand So Close. London: Corgi, 2014.
60. Lodge D. Therapy. London: Vintage, 2011.
61. Low M Asylum London: Legend Press, 2019
62. Maher K. Last Night on Earth. London: Little Brown, 2015.
63. Matlwa K. Evening Primrose, London: Sceptre, 2017.
64. McCleen G. The Offering. London: Sceptre, 2015.
65. Messud C The Burning Girl London: Fleet, 2017
66. Mooney D The Great Unexpected London: Legend Press, 2018
67. Moskovich Y Virtuoso London: Serpent’s Tail, 2019
68. Naspini S Oxygen Europa editions, 2021
69. Norman C The New Woman London: Allen & Unwin, 2015
70. Parks T. Thomas and Mary. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2016.
71. Parks T. In Extremis London: Harvill Secker, 2017
72. Quatro J. Fire Sermon. London: Picador, 2018
73. Riley G First Love London: Granta, 2017
74. Roth P Portnoy’s Complaint London: Vintage, 1967
75. Russell KE. My Dark Vanessa. London: 4thEstate, 2021
    
76. Seethaler R. The Tobacconist. London: Picador, 2016.
77. Smallwood C The Life of the Mind London: Europa Editions, 2021
78. Snyckers F Lacuna London: Europa editions, 2022
79. Statovci P My Cat Yugoslavia London: Pushkin Press, 2017
80. Taylor D. Herring Girl. London: Oneworld, 2014.
81. Teir P The Summer House London: Serpent’s Tail, 2018.
82. Theroux M. Strange Bodies. London: Faber and Faber, 2013.
83. Thomas B A Good Enough Mother London: Faber and Faber, 2019
84. Thomas B The Family Retreat London: Faber and Faber, 2022
85. Thompson S. Jott London: JM Originals, 2018
86. Treger L Madwoman London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
87. Ullman E. By Blood. London: Pushkin Press, 2012.
88. Vaught A Killing Hapless Ally Manningtree: Patrician Press, 2016
89. Versteeg W. The Boy. London: Hope Road, 2016.
90. Vickers S. The Other Side of You. London: Fourth Estate, 2006.
91. Vickers S.  Miss Garnet’s Angel London: Fourth Estate, 2006.
92. Whitaker P. You. Cromer: Salt, 2018
93. Wolitzer M. The Interestings. London: Vintage, 2014.
94. Wood J Upstate London: Jonathan Cape, 2018
95. Wood N. Azanian Bridges, Alconbury Weston: Newcon Press, 2016.
96. Woodruff SG The Lobotomist’s Wife Seattle: Lake Union Publishing, 2022
97. Yalom D When Nietzsche Wept New York: Harper Perennial, 1992/2003
98. Yalom ID Lying on the Couch New York: HarperPerennial, 1997