Granta 71: Shrinks
The talking cure, otherwise know as analysis or therapy. Invented Vienna, c.1886. Most celebrated exponents: Sigmund Freud, Jerry Springer. Favourite questions: ‘Can you tell me a little more about that?’ Diseases to which normally addressed: unhappiness, personal torment. Efficacy: contested. Effect on the written word: vast.
This issue of Granta is devoted to the kinks and twists of the human mind, and their treatments.
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In this issue
Elliot Perlman: The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers
Edmund White: Shrinks
Paul Auster: It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ian Parker: Obedience
Judith Hermann: The Red Coral Bracelet translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
Gautier Deblonde: Gormley’s People
Justine Picardie: If I Dream I Have You
Tim Parks: Paolo
Amit Chaudhuri: Real Time
Fergus Fleming: The Oddity of Height
Roy Hattersley: In Search of a Third Way
