Stephen Grosz's collection of case histories makes a subtle but powerful case for psychoanalysis (fr-angl)

The job of a good analyst is to help the patient ‘emerge from the cocoon of subjectivity to cope better with the real world’. Photograph: Coleman/ ClassicStock/ Corbis
Complex, time-consuming, expensive and usually inconclusive: it's hard to define what purpose psychoanalysis really serves. Janet Malcolm, one of few modern writers able to explain the Freudian method in clear, uncluttered prose, likened the process to pouring water into a sieve. "The moisture that remains on the surface of the mesh is the benefit of the analysis," she wrote in 1983.
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