Reviews for Mockingbird Years
"{Gordon is} a stunning writer, whose perceptions are casually penetrating. Her guilelessly understated memoir is as good an argument for the examined life -- for the sustained construction of a coherent self that is the therapeutic ideal -- as it is a dissection of the many ways in which therapy can go wrong."
Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review
"By now we are used to the narrative of salvation through therapy; it has become its own genre, a Lives of the Saints for our age. Mockingbird Years is a very different beast indeed. Scathing, witty, and profoundly unsentimental, it will peel the paint right off your psychic walls."
Mary Park, Amazon
"A uniquely eloquent account of the circled therapeutic relationship. Mockingbird Years is so assured in its intuition, it is as if Emily Fox Gordon had invented a new genre. It is a remarkable book." - Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
"I loved this book for so many reasons -- its exacting and beautiful prose, its acute intelligence -- but mostly, as a psychologist, I loved this book for its dead-on critique of psychotherapy, and its bold suggestions of what we might do differently, if we were just brave enough to try." - Lauren Slater
Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review
"By now we are used to the narrative of salvation through therapy; it has become its own genre, a Lives of the Saints for our age. Mockingbird Years is a very different beast indeed. Scathing, witty, and profoundly unsentimental, it will peel the paint right off your psychic walls."
Mary Park, Amazon
"A uniquely eloquent account of the circled therapeutic relationship. Mockingbird Years is so assured in its intuition, it is as if Emily Fox Gordon had invented a new genre. It is a remarkable book." - Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
"I loved this book for so many reasons -- its exacting and beautiful prose, its acute intelligence -- but mostly, as a psychologist, I loved this book for its dead-on critique of psychotherapy, and its bold suggestions of what we might do differently, if we were just brave enough to try." - Lauren Slater