# On the Couch

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- Book: [On the Couch](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathan-kravis/on-the-couch) ([On the Couch.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathan-kravis/on-the-couch.md))
- Authors: [Nathan Kravis](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathan-kravis)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6203-661-0
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2017-09-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing. The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session...