Joan Didion's diary of post-therapy notes, addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, is going to be published in "Notes to John." (Patrick Downs / Los Angeles Times) Joan Didion kept notes of her ...

Therapists work hard to establish a bond so that patients feel safe and confident in exposing and exploring their most private feelings, memories, mistakes, and experiences—sometimes embarrassing or ...

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We talk in therapy, right? So what’s with all the scribbling? A reader asked a question about the written word that’s too good to erase. It pertains to the value of longhand in the therapy office, ...

Handing over notes from counselling sessions during legal proceedings can be “horrendously traumatising” for victims of sexual violence, campaigners calling for a total ban on the practice has said.

Through much of 2020 and 2021, Lilia M. Kilburn, an Anthropology Ph.D. candidate at Harvard, worked closely with the University’s Office of Dispute Resolution, which was investigating a sexual ...

Seeking to end a practice that one senator called a “profound betrayal of trust,” legislation was introduced Wednesday in the Senate and House of Representatives to stop the Trump administration from ...