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...