All those years, all that money, all that unrequited love. It began way back when I was a child, an anxiety-riddled 10-year-old who...

My attachment to the intricate, fiercely inconsistent woman who is my mother has always been shot through with ambivalence. It is as if...

My career in therapy has been a long and varied one, spanning four decades and calling on different aspects of my presented self. One of...

ELLE Contributing EditorDaphne Merkin's new memoir, This Close to Happy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), explores her life, recurrent depression

The New York Times | July 7, 2010. THIS spring, in ripe midlife, after years of thinking and talking about it, I finally rented a summer...

The New York Times | July 7, 2010. I have always been fascinated by the concept of the transitional object—that first possession, be it a...