Therapy is difficult to define and relatively easy to avoid. That’s a problem when it comes to creating and sustaining an effective anti-money laundering (AML) capability with a robust business risk-management program at its core.

Just ask companies whose AML programs remain in need of serious treatment. Or ask a comedian. “I’ve been in therapy,” Larry David, the co-creator of the television show “Seinfeld” and the creator of his own show “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has said. “I know enough about myself now to know that I really don’t need to know anymore.”