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Maren Scheurer is a Researcher and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and English Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She is executive co-editor, with Aimee Pozorski, of Philip Roth Studies.

Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
1 Psychoanalysis and the Arts
2 The Therapeutic Relationship
Part II. Discourses in Dialogue: The Aesthetics and Poetics of Therapeutic Relationships
3 The Art of the Therapeutic Relationship: Psychoanalytic Aesthetics
4 Art as (Therapeutic) Relationship: Relational Models of Creativity, Reading, and Interpretation
Part III. Reading Relationships: Therapy in Literature, Theater, and Television
5 “I’m Telling Everything”: Psychoanalytic Gameply in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint
6 “A Gap, a Hole, a Darkness”: Epistemic Desire in J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K
7 “To Keep the Sultan Amused”: Scheherazadian Narration in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace
8 “Act It Out, If You Like”: Anti- and Stage-Psychiatry in Peter Shaffer’s Equus
9 “Locked in a Room, Listening”: Talk-Show Therapy and Co-Construction in In Treatment
Part IV. In Conclusion
Works Cited
Notes
Index