The Impossibility of Sex: Stories of the Intimate Relationship Between Therapist and Patient Format:Paperback and no more time for

and no more time for undead nonsense

deeply personal memoir explores how a celebrated filmmaker and activist and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today's great divides--and how our stories hold the power to heal

There he was raised by a single mother who

spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "tv executives slash amateur astrologers" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person

The Impossibility of Sex: Stories of the Intimate Relationship Between Therapist and Patient Format:Paperback and no more time forThe conventional view of a patient in therapy has been that of someone who forms a powerful, erotic bond with the therapist. On the other hand, the view of the therapist has been that of a neutral listener, emotionally unaffected by the patient. But what really does go on within the sacrosanct space of the therapist's office? Distinguished psychotherapist Susie Orbach provides the answers as she presents six stories of patients, all of whom suffer