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For psychotherapy and counselling patients/clients, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts everywhere, this comic cartoon book is about psychotherapy in the new techno-culture age. Think The Beano meets The New Yorker; Karnac presents reveals a therapeutic world finally having to grapple with the impact of the Internet and telecommunications - with Skype-therapy, Skype-analysis, texts, emails and tweets. New research indicates both freedom of these the technological changes - and also the problems of the new world. This small, eight-chapter book, with its mixture of text and cartoons [six cartoons per chapter] is about that culture. At the same time, this book by psychotherapist Harriet Gaze and cartoonist Kipper Williams is a cautionary tale of what can go wrong in a 50-minutes session with the hapless Dr Lynn Strunk as she sets up a new psychotherapy practice in the new world. Dealing with topics such as money, confidentiality and 'acting out', this is a therapist who can torment her clients- and they her - as Dr Strunk sets up practice in the over-crowded world of North London's 'therapeutic triangle'.