Judith D. Schwartz tells of training as a therapist, shifting back and forth between her experience as beginning clinician and her own increasingly devastating therapy treatment. It is the story of the author's belief system crumbling - and how she comes out the other side. At once a meditation on the nature of psychotherapy and a personal journey rich in irony, The Therapist's New Clothes will change the way you look at language, healing, and trust.

"A terrific book. Fascinating, terrifying, and brave."
- Abigail Thomas, author of A Three Dog Life (Harcourt)

"The Therapist's New Clothes is evocative, poetic and so captures Judy's inner workings when she was the mother of a very young child and was on her way to becoming a therapist. Judy is such a talented writer with the ability to get those thoughts and feelings onto the page that so easilyescape you. This book is one of my favorite memoirs of all time."
- Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, author of Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within (Harcourt).

"An honest, highly intelligent, darkly ironic book about what it is like to sit in the therapists chair. Judy's writing sings."
- Alison Larkin, author of The English American (Simon & Schuster).