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Vaughan’s Troubled: A Memoir in Poems and Fragments (Coach House, 2008) is a book-length confession and self-reflexive analysis of the rise and fall of the poet’s love affair with his therapist. This includes everything from the early flirtatious sessions between patient and doctor, weekend getaways, physical and emotional abuse, the revoking of the therapist’s license to practice and, eventually, said therapist’s reinstatement.
