Is a New Year clear-out better than therapy?

Turns out those Italian espresso cups might tell you more than your clinician

It started with a dish. A long, green serving dish with a scalloped edge and a horse painted down the middle. I bought it in Florence some years ago, along with several packets of five foot long pasta which we never figured out how to cook. Next came the glasses: huge Waterford crystal tumblers that once sparkled like disco balls but which now stand gre…