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Joan Didion’s unedited record of therapy is morbidly fascinating

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Joan Didion’s unedited record of therapy is morbidly fascinating

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Blue notes

Joan Didion’s unedited record of therapy is morbidly fascinating

It is the great failure of Notes to John that it lacks the writer’s distinctive voice altogether

Olivia Downes

Why the kids are manifesting a Kamala presidency

Millennials and Gen Z are speaking her viability as a candidate into existence

Matt McDonald

Vampire Therapist is simultaneously earnest and winningly ridiculous

It even comes with a trigger warning

Sam Leith

Why send a child to therapy?

I’ve become horribly aware, since reading Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy, of how often my eight-year-old is asked to focus on his feelings

Mary Wakefield

Health

How therapy turned on itself

Why would anyone seek counseling to be browbeaten with a partisan cudgel? They wouldn’t

Lionel Shriver

Health
August 10, 2023
Is your therapist trying to brainwash you?
A large number of mental health professionals currently seem to value political advocacy over peer and client relationships
Robin Atkins
Health
May 1, 2023
Scoop: how Critical Race Theory is taking over your therapy sessions
Many are trying to get white patients to recognize their inherent bias
Amber Duke
Culture
March 18, 2023
A new book and a newborn
I find myself wondering how I might have fared were I a child today
Bethany Mandel
Europe
March 5, 2023
Prince Harry is surrounded by victims
Though in his pay-per-view therapy session with Gabor Maté, he claimed he wasn’t one
Kara Kennedy
Science & Tech
February 27, 2023
Social-justice shrinks: how identity politics infected therapy
The social-justice therapist reduces clients to avatars of gender, race and ethnicity
Sally Satel
London Life
January 25, 2023
Stuck in a love triangle with a shrink
During their sessions together The Other Man does that old Freudian trick of staying silent
Cosmo Landesman
January 11, 2023
Prince Harry and the problem of too much therapy
Whoever is psychoanalyzing him seems to be telling him that nothing is his fault
Kara Kennedy
Science & Tech
May 26, 2022
Who needs therapy?
Not everyone appreciates being told to look inward
Jesse Singal
June 25, 2020
Will the shock of COVID change anything?
Collectively, we’ve had a sort of out-of-body experience — looked at our lives from outside
Matthew Parris
Books
August 29, 2019
Taking pride in household chores really can ease depression
I Never Said I Loved You by Rhik Samadder reviewed
Isabel Hardman

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