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Rather than capturing actual therapy sessions, these photos show their spaces, unoccupied, in between appointments. Thurber’s photos offer compelling proof that furniture, objects, artworks, and architectural details together create tremendously different spaces and experiences of therapy, positing that the arrangement of things shapes social and psychological dynamics, whether healing or disparaging.

In a book from Kehrer Verlag, Shellburne Thurber photographs the interiors of psychoanalysts' offices & invites us to draw our own conclusions