Playing Role Reversal With My Therapist | With Isabelle Huppert

Modern Love

The New York Times

Love, New York Times, Nytimes, Essay, Loss, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Redemption, Nyt

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Therapists' offices are supposed to be places where you can be both vulnerable and safe. But what happens when your therapist crosses a line? That happened to Julianna Baggott -- and she writes about it an an essay that's read by Isabelle Huppert ("Greta").

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:05.0	Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston.
0:18.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:23.0	The New York Times
0:28.0	Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.
0:41.0	Therapists' offices are supposed to be places where you can be both vulnerable and safe.
0:47.0	But what happens when your therapist crosses a line?
0:51.0	Well, that happened to Julianna Baggett, and she writes about it in her essay,
0:55.0	Playing Roll Reversal with My Therapist.
0:58.0	It's read by Oscar-nominated actress Isabel Upew.
1:01.0	She stars in the new film Greta in theaters now.
1:05.0	Before my husband quit his job and his top notch insurance ran out,
1:10.0	he and I got take-ups and dentist appointments.
1:13.0	We got new glasses and signed up for a few therapy sessions.
1:19.0	My therapist was awful.
1:22.0	I talked about my occasional panic attacks and insomnia,
1:26.0	and she gave me homework,
1:28.0	Rating my anxiety on a scale of 1 to 10 in a notebook.
1:33.0	The process, it turned out, that made me more anxious.
1:40.0	My husband's therapist, on the other hand,
1:43.0	had him talking about his childhood and his recurring dreams about breathing underwater
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