(b. 1954– )
U.S. essayist, literary critic, and novelist
Daphne Merkin
Therapy, you might say, became a kind of release valve for my life; it gave me a place to say the things I could say nowhere else, express the feelings that would be laughed at or frowned upon in the outside world — and in so doing helped to alleviate the insistent pressure of my darker thoughts.
“My Life in Therapy,” The New York Times, August 4, 2010.