There is a curious article on the NY Times website with the
title "My Life in Therapy" whose author describes her lifelong
(since age 10) "involvement" with therapy, typically talk therapy
of a Freudian or psychoanalytic nature; see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08Psychoanalysis-t.html?pagewanted=all

Although the author tries to make clear what it is she has
been searching for in therapy, it is not at all clear to me that
she really had needed all those years of therapy.  Perhaps
one of her therapist should have simply said "This is life.
Get used to it." but that might have been too directive. Then
again, perhaps the process of being in therapy had become
an addiction and life without it would be too painful.

I would probably advise the author to put "Tokyo Story" on
the old DVD player and ponder the exquisite sweetness and
sadness of life.

-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]


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