02034cam a2200409 4500 503828924 TxAuBib 20210615120000.0 200923s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020043557 9781631498176 hardcover 1631498177 hardcover (OCoLC)1155060700 TxAuBib eng fin Lindstedt, Laura, 1976- My friend Natalia : a novel / Laura Lindstedt ; translated from the Finnish by David Hackston. English-language edition. New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2021. 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. "Original edition published by Teos Publishers, Finland, as Ystäväni Natalia"--Copyright page. Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225). Narrated by an unnamed, ungendered therapist who leaps at the chance to employ their most experimental methods, My Friend Natalia offers a gripping examination of the power dynamics always present but rarely ever spoken about in therapy. "Something flared within me," the therapist notes, "and it wasn't merely sympathy, the emotion I feel for most of my clients. It was more like a sudden experience of harmony, wholly inappropriate given the circumstances." It is clear from the moment Natalia barges into her new therapist's office that she has motives beyond simply fixing her sex life. 20210615. Sex (Psychology.) Sex (Psychology.) Fiction. Therapist and patient. Therapist and patient. Fiction. Psychotherapy Fiction. Psychotherapy. Psychological fiction. Erotic fiction. Fiction. Novels. Hackston, David,. TXDRI