Mockingbird years

"Here in her own words, therapy veteran, sometime mental patient and a prize-winning essayist Gordon tells the story of her "therapeutic education," marked by no fewer than five therapists before she turned seventeen. Among these, Dr. G, from whom Gordon learned "which gambits and attitudes might cause the wordless therapist to signal his receptiveness, and Dr. H, in whose office the silence was broken only by the therapist's needles clicking as she knit her young patient a sweater. At eighteen, after a half-hearted suicide attempt, Gordon, mired in adolescent angst, began a three-year…