“The is no incontrovertibly standard analytic couch – not because there are so many design choices, or because psychoanalysts are remarkably self-expressive, but because the couch is not a proprietary signifier like the stethoscope. It is a cultural object with too long and complicated a genealogy for any single generation or community of analysts to be able to brand it.”

“Music is not discontinuous with the office chairs chosen, how many chairs there are, the colour of the paint, how brightly lit is the room, whether you have reading material in the waiting room, if the carpet is vacuumed or in need of vacuuming - one could go on for thirty or forty more things.”