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The Therapist Remaking Our Love Lives on TV | The New Yorker

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How Orna Guralnik, the star of “Couples Therapy,” gets the world on her couch.

Save this story Save this story In this oversharing, overshared age, the psychotherapist’s consulting room may be one of the last purely private sanctums left. Sessions happen behind firmly closed doors, the sound of patients’ voices masked by the whirr of white-noise machines. The promise of confidentiality is sacred. What happens in treatment is meant to stay there. A few years ago, though, the documentary filmmakers Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg decided that it might be worth trying to peek under the Freudian slip. Kriegman and Steinberg both grew up in upper-middle-class Jewish familie

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