What is it that we truly seek when we turn to therapy? Towards the end of his work, Freud came to recognise that the symptom resists: it does not disappear once and for all, but returns, as though serving a purpose that cannot be exhausted by understanding alone, nor by the restoration of psychic balance, as contemporary psychological language might put it. Far from taking this as a sign of failure, Lacan made it a decisive point of reflection. For him, the symptom is not something to be cured, because it serves a truth: a discourse that articulates the way in which the subject relates to his enjoyment and desire. It is not, then, a dysfunction, but an unconscious solution. This book shows why psychoanalysis cannot simply be subsumed under the broad field of psychotherapy. Its singularity lies not in offering another therapeutic technique, but in opening a space in which a truth may emerge that exceeds the image of oneself. At a time when mental health is increasingly framed in terms of regulation and symptom management, the psychoanalytic approach to the subject’s truth stands in contrast to the therapeutic pursuit of functionality, adaptation, and emotional well-being. Written for readers who sense that suffering can neither be reduced to a demand for self-improvement nor resolved through reassurance, Therapy or Truth? is for those seeking an encounter with the desire that inhabits them. Drawing on examples from psychoanalytic practice and everyday life, the book makes the ideas explored accessible and concrete.