psychotherapist-patient relationship

When the police ask psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin to help them investigate the brutal murder of a woman they believe is a prostitute, Joe discovers the woman is a nurse he once worked with. As the case develops, the police suspect one of Joe's patients is responsible.

Daphne Merkin delves into what it feels like to suffer from a lifetime's worth of clinical depression, beginning in her childhood and stetching into the present, where Merkin lives a high-functioning life.