That is sooo coool.. thanks, Sister! Isn't it funny how I said that I would buy the same couch as my T? And it says it right there in the article!

The couches at the place where I go to therapy are ugly... I don't even know if they are leather.. maybe vinyl... brown... but they are very neutrally-ugly, lol.. not the type of couch that I would look at and say, "Ugh... that's ugly..." I mean, realistically it is ugly, as in, not the type of thing you'd pick out from a store or anything. But it's so neutral, it goes unnoticed as a piece of furniture, rather it is a symbol for all that could happen on that couch.

I like this part of the article:

"There is general agreement on at least one thing: a couch should not look too much like a bed."

"Enough erotic fantasies are going to come up anyhow," said Dr. Wayne Myers, a psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "You don't want to program the fantasies people have about the couch."

Hahahahahaha, now I'm imagining myself on a bed in Ts office with satin sheets... hahahaha

Now this part:

"His company no longer uses buttons as decoration, in recognition of the nervous habits of the analysands."

"The patients are edgy," Mr. Brafman said. "They pick at the buttons. There was a maintenance problem." Fringe trim is also considered a bad idea, since "the patients will just unravel it."

My God, if T's couch had buttons, they would have been ripped off in a second yesterday. I probably would have done something crazy, like eaten them or something, hahaha.

"A traditional psychoanalytic couch looks like a flat single bed with a built-in headrest."

Yes, this is exactly what the one in Ts room looks like.

I may print this article out for T. I really want to do some reseach on this whole couch phenomenon. I haven't done much research at all in the use of the couch. I basically only know what T told me... and now a bit from my own experience. With everything that happened yesterday I am now dying to do some in depth research into the role of the couch in analysis.