Some dare to suggest psychotherapy to their father or mother. But is this really the role of the child? And how to convince when resistance or skepticism is harsh? For her 35th birthday, Juliette* asked only one gift from her 61-year-old mother: that she begin psychotherapy.

“She recovered from breast cancer 30 years ago but never really accepted it,” explains Juliette. ‘She never really understood why she survived, when so many others around them died’