Therapist: Patients try to become better

I take issue with the statement by philosopher Lou Marinoff that philosophical counseling is “therapy for the sane” (“The New Insight,” by Bettijane Levine, Sept. 23). The implication is that those in therapy are not “sane.” In my experience as a practicing psychotherapist, people in therapy are among the sanest in the world. They exert great effort, sometimes at great monetary expense, to confront their fears and to change in order to be the best they can be.

Jane Bolton

Culver City