I saw my therapist weekly for two years. Then he let slip he'd been watching me. Had he crossed a line?

I believe in psychotherapy as both a healing tool and an absolute social imperative. When I run out of money, it is one of the last things to go somewhere between milk and the hairdresser.

I have been in and out of one kind of treatment or another since I was eight: school counselling, grief counselling, cognitive behaviour therapy, various forms of Freudian and Jungian psychotherapy roughly in that order.

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