The Awkward Intimacy of Therapy
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When Lori Gottlieb, the author of ’s “” column, started her first therapy session, her client started crying almost immediately. The experience was “simultaneously awkward and intimate,” in her book —and a reminder of the ultimate humanity of the therapeutic relationship. Although Gottlieb entered the room concerned about “how to apply the numerous abstract psychological theories I’d studied over the past
