Stories of Love and Psychotherapy

A woman goes to Washington Square Park to see if her allegiance to an ex can make way for a new love.A man’s broken heart leads him to idealize his long-distance girlfriend in the South of France-whose life is not at all what he imagines.A couple attends a sex party to spice up their love life and their lives ... change.A psychotherapist’s familiarity with the inner landscapes of his clients’ schizophrenia suddenly reminds him of his so-called healthy patients’ inner worlds, and of his own.After a loss, an architect reconstructs his relationship with his husband.Kenneth Jedding is a psychotherapist in Greenwich Village. Over the years his patients have included mothers, fathers, actors, dancers, NFL players, NBA wives, people needing to break up, people breaking up, people meeting someone new and people falling in love.The profession has offered him a deeper understanding of people’s feelings and motivations, and inspired the seven stories in this collection.