Cuckoo Forevermore

By Leonard K. Szymczak

"Uproarious shenanigans in a Down Under version of the classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. - Patricia Monaghan, author of Magical Garden.
A cast of lunatics Down Under puts the "fun" back into dysfunctional in this, zany, sexy satire on psychotherapy. Dr. Peter Pinowski, approaching the big 30, still lives with his neurotic Polish parents. In his first job at a children's psychiatric department of a Sydney hospital, he finds paranoids, perverts, and pandemonium, not from the patients but from the staff.

This revised edition of Cuckoo Forevermore offers a new foreword and spiced-up content. The characters are rivetingly strange and the dialogue is lovingly eccentric. Appealing and appalling, surprising and sexy, and always outrageously funny, Cuckoo Forevermore presents a shocking perspective on therapy. The sequel, Kookaburra's Last Laugh, keeps the zaniness going forevermore.

"Cuckoo Forevermore is both a satire of the psychotherapy profession and the story of a man's journey toward manhood. It is funny, accurate, probing, and enlightening. It shows the dark underbelly of the so-called therapeutic professions with humor and insight. It's about time an insider blew the whistle on an industry that has its own special scams, frauds, and rogues." - Asa Baber, author of Naked at Gender Gap and former Men columnist, Playboy Magazine

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996956603
• ISBN13: 9780996956604
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: GPS Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A peak behind the scenes of the world of psychotherapy

Mr. Szymczak offers a humorous look at the field of psychotherapy through the personalities and life experiences of some real characters. The author claims his material was inspired by his real life encounters. This fact might prove a bit disconcerting to the faint-hearted and especially those who may have a naive idea of the health and normalcy of those trying to lead the masses to health and normalcy. The book will probably have its greatest appeal to those working in the field. While you will chuckle at some of his entanglements, you will also sympathize with the main character Peter through his painful growth as a young professional psychotherapist coming to grips with the realities that come his way. He is also struggling to untie the apron strings of an overbearing mom. You the reader might want to keep a little note pad to help keep track of the characters...there are quite a few, each a bit more cuckoo than the other. Don't look for a definitive ending. You'll be left with a ray of hope for poor Peter, but you'll be wondering...and ready to read the sequel, which is on its way.

A superb satire on psychotherapy

This book is absorbing, one of those books you just couldn't put down until you finished it. It is a story about a psychologist who, at age 29, still lives with his parents in Australia, which is the setting of the book. He works in a psychiatric department which is staffed with a lot of crazy professionals. I'd hate to be a patient with one of their therapists. It had some disturbing scenes which reminded me of "One flew over the Cuckoo's nest" I was blatantly shocked at how they used one way mirrors.