Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook - Page 16

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marthaquest — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:03:13 -0500

I imagine they see the same therapist because in 1957 this was a rare thing to do, and psychoanalysts (isn't this what she is called?) were not easy to find, and the etiquette of not sharing therapists with friends/family hadn't evolved yet. It was still an unknown, new science. I think you are reading too much symbolism into it but OK.

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DL fan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:11:01 -0400

Reading the comments on page 16 ... almost all link the two women as having been to a therapist, albeit the same one and not as two declared, even if ruefully maybe, as free women. Seeing a therapist at all in those years set them apart as so called free to do so, i.e. not having to defend it. PjV