Thursday, August 5, 2004
In the new movie Intimate Strangers, a woman in France mistakenly goes to a tax accountant’s office and, thinking it is her therapist’s office, tells him all the secrets of her marriage. The New York Times’ movie review notes “[A] tax accountant’s relationship to a client parallels a pscyhotherapist’s. Both professions involve knowing personal secrets and making decisions about what to reveal and what to hide.”
(Thanks to Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.) for the tip.) Cf. Joshua Rosenberg, The Psychology of Taxes, 16 Va. Tax Rev. 155 (1996).
