‘Have You Ever Been in Psychotherapy, Doctor?’
MIND By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D. The New York Times: February 19, 2008 A curious thing happened to one of my psychiatric residents not long ago. One of his patients caught him off guard with a challenging question: “Have you ever been in psychotherapy yourself?” Brian Stauffer He was uncomfortable answering the question directly, so he spent some time trying to discover why it mattered to his patient. “He wanted to know if I knew what it felt like to be ill and helpless,” th
