Janet Malcolm once wrote that psychoanalysis requires the analyst and the patient to wrestle with an arrangement whose “radical unlikeness to any other human relationship” is dizzying for both parties ...

In “Fashion and the Unconscious,” a book from 1953, the psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler describes a patient in her mid-thirties who wore so much gray clothing that her friends called her the Lady in Gray ...

Stephen Grosz’s books show a new generation the inner workings of psychoanalysis. Credit...Gareth McConnell for The New York Times Supported by By Daphne Merkin To many of us, what goes on in analysis ...