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In her journalism, Malcolm offered devastating portraits of artists, analysts, and frauds. She dreaded receiving the same treatment.

In 1998, Adam Gopnik wrote in The New Yorker about his six years in therapy with one of New York’s last Freudian psychoanalysts. “Man Goes to See a Doctor” recounts Gopnik’s affecting experience with an analyst he describes as alternately touchy and high-handed. “I could never decide whether to sue for malpractice or fall to my knees in gratitude for such an original healer,” he recalls. This past year has, not surprisingly, seen an uptick in the need for the many beneficial servic...