From the Archive: Lori Gottlieb — What Your Therapist Is Really Thinking

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Your therapist. is helping you to see, you know, it's kind of like editing a story, right? We come in with stories and the therapist's job is to say, well, what material is extraneous? Is the story advancing or is the protagonist going in circles? Do the plot points reveal a theme?

And it at our very first session, he tells me that he's going to pay in cash at the door because he doesn't want his wife to know that he's seeing a therapist. And he says, You'll be you'll be like my mistress. I'll just come here every week, dump all my problems on you and leave. Or actually not my mistress, more like my hooker, because you're not the kind of person I would choose as a mistress.

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