In therapy: the unfolding story (Updated edition.)

In the UK alone, 1.5 million people are in therapy.

They go to address past traumas, to break patterns of behaviour, to confront eating disorders or addiction, to talk about relationships, or simply because they need to find out more about what makes them tick.

Susie Orbach has been a psychotherapist for over 40 years.

Here, she explores what goes on in the process of therapy - what she thinks, feels and believes about the people who seek her help - through five dramatised case studies.