Why must I constantly defend my profession?
I was having coffee with a friend the other day and said I had to go because I had patients to see. “Oh,” she said, wincing. “I’d forgotten you do that.” This was odd in itself, because for years I must have been avoiding talking to her about psychoanalytic theory for fear of offending her (it’s normally very difficult to get me off the subject) or, rather, for fear of her offending me. Then I saw her face light up as a “joke” leapt into her mind. “Amazing that you can dole out advice when you can’t sort your own life out!” She laughed, relieved to have wrapped the subject up so satisfactorily. I tore the edges off a packet of sugar and wondered whether or not to bother.
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