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Just want to say therapy sessions can be tremendously interesting.
I recall those Tony Soprano had with his therapist on the TV show, the Sopranos. Enlightening. Surprising. Funny. And at least one time, dangerous.
Same for the TV show, In Treatment, with actor Gabriel Byrne.
Now of course those are television shows, but taken from written material. A session with a therapist can be terribly insightful, revealing, or it can be a study in stonewalling and denial, whatever. If used in a memoir, why not? A memoir reveals, right? What better place than in a therapy session, even if it's not 100% accurately recalled. (Who recalls 100% of anything in one's past, unless we are gifted with that perfect memory thing that only a very few people possess.)
But even so, I do recall certain conversations I had with parents, friends, a colleague here and there, and with startling accuracy. Maybe because it meant something to me at the time, so I remember it. (And possibly relive it now and then.)
So just weighing in...
I recall those Tony Soprano had with his therapist on the TV show, the Sopranos. Enlightening. Surprising. Funny. And at least one time, dangerous.
Same for the TV show, In Treatment, with actor Gabriel Byrne.
Now of course those are television shows, but taken from written material. A session with a therapist can be terribly insightful, revealing, or it can be a study in stonewalling and denial, whatever. If used in a memoir, why not? A memoir reveals, right? What better place than in a therapy session, even if it's not 100% accurately recalled. (Who recalls 100% of anything in one's past, unless we are gifted with that perfect memory thing that only a very few people possess.)
But even so, I do recall certain conversations I had with parents, friends, a colleague here and there, and with startling accuracy. Maybe because it meant something to me at the time, so I remember it. (And possibly relive it now and then.)
So just weighing in...