People allow therapy to work when they want it to, but the point of the process is seldom the end result. She has patients who come to her twice a week only to repeat themselves, to detail the same obsessions, same behaviors, same indifferent little squalors and embarrassments. People like to feel that they’re working on something, to feel exonerated by the simple fact of self-reflection. I know I can do better, one woman has been known to say to her on average seven times per session. No one ever gives me credit for the fact that I’m aware
