Fine

by Samuel Shem

Book Overview

With the same brilliant meld of zany humor, human emotion, and high truth that made his first novel, THE HOUSE OF GOD, a medical classic, Samuel Shem, himself a psychiatrist, plunges headlong into the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312290039
• ISBN13: 9780312290030
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a murder mystery and a personal journey of a young psychitri

This is an excellent book. Fine is a young analyst in training learning the rudiments of psychotherapy. Meanwhile, a killer is stalking psychiatrists and murdering them in the Boston area. Fine has many adventures with his wife, best friend,and patients while trying to discover the killer who might or might not be one of his patients. In the process he also discovers the secret to his humanity and to successful psychotherapy which turns out to be the root of all of his other searches