I had an old school French professor in college who once said something like:

"You Americans are so bizarre. You will spend hundreds and thousands of dollars to pay for the privilege to lay on a couch and talk to a therapist. We know better in France. In France we go to Mass, we go into the confessional, we say what we feel bad about, the priest forgives us, and we're all better. For free!"

edit: was supposed to be under the therapy comment