Ian’s Reviews > Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy > Status Update

“If I were forced to assign an official diagnostic label to Marie, I would follow the formula described in the DSM…and arrive at a precise and official-sounding six-part diagnosis. Yet I know it would have little to do with the flesh-and-blood Marie, the Marie who always surprised me and outdistanced my grasp, the Marie of the two smiles.” (“Two Smiles,” p. 186)