Do you need therapy?

How long do you have to keep it up?

Are you in love with your therapist?

Or is your therapist in love with you?

Actors B.D. Wong and the Daily Show's Troy Iwata

help us to understand the allure and the dangers of sharing your problems

with a stranger.

Stay with me, Meg Wallitzer,

for a session that's a little over 50 minutes.

You're listening to Selected Shorts,

recorded live in performance

at Symphony Space in New York City

and at other venues nationwide.

Thank you. at Symphony Space in New York City and at other venues nationwide. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung made the insides of our heads

as important as what's inside the rest of our bodies.

Since then, their various acolytes and

descendants have crafted myriad variations and therapies designed to help us with our problems

and realign us emotionally. Today, being in therapy is as common as going to the gym, and many

of us are casually fluent in therapy speak.

You know, those terms that get floated at dinner parties or that you might hear people casually

chatting about on the subway, passive aggressive, narcissist, gaslighting.

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