The discipline runs into trouble with Freud on feminine sexuality, but personally, I sense a truth in his thinking

Crucially, that doesn't stop them being able to do their jobs well

"Sitting there looking at this crushed girl, I really started to hate this guy."

Some patients, I know, imagine indifference in a therapist just doing the job. The opposite is true"

Tuscany's Chinatown is shrugging off the slump, but integration remains a challenge

"Diagnosis is comforting, mainly for the diagnoser"

"When we have words to describe our emotional state, things immediately feel more manageable"

"I know this all sounds like minor stuff, but, given where we started, it’s huge."

"There is a vast difference between feeling persecuted by loss or trauma and incorporating it into your life as processed and bearable"

©Marilyn Cole, Wikimedia CommonsClick here to read more from our November 2016 issueMy patient had a dream that turned out, she thought, to be a real memory. “I know you love dreams,”...