Cartoons: The Shrink’s Couch

The couch in the psychiatrist’s office is probably more cliché than reality, but it provides great comic fodder for Post cartoonists.

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Comments

  1. Darn. Now I can’t use that last one (being slapped at birth) for an excuse for my erratic behavior. I’ll have to come up with something else. Seriously, I really loved these cartoons—all are timeless.

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