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I'm finding a lot of stuff is coming towards
me at the moment.
Bill
Same sort of thing. Mad, mad stuff.
Judi
Completely mad.
Bill
It's almost like it's not as continuous as in
therapy, in therapy like every move you
make you know you can actually ...
Judi
No you can't, you can't anticipate it.
Bill
No you can be a colleague, you can be
quite chummy with people and then sort of
suddenly you get kind of whoosh, impaled
by something.
Judi
I know, I know it's absolutely amazing.
A summary of the session after the break
Chapter Eight – A Consulting Break - Page 251
You don’t say. Judi is referring here, I
think, to her role as Acting Director of the
agency. She’s changed level.
What was I going to say?
Hmm! (Here I am reflecting with irony
that I am describing what can happen
without apparent acknowledgement or
even awareness that this dynamic has, I
believe, been present between us at
various points in this break, including the
present moment.
Saved by the bell. (BREAK ENDS)
From the end of the break and up to the denouément, 5 the group reflect back the themes
of going overseas and feeling tired from their break, in other words, from the students’
discussion in the absence of the tutors. In the text that follows, Bill notes at one point (in
relation to the presenter’s patient), “It’s almost like … she has allowed her therapist into
her inner world but she can’t connect her inner world with the world outside”. The
picture that eventually emerges is of an unhappy and possibly histrionic woman
5 I am using denouément here to describe the part of each week’s teaching session when the presenter
reveals if not all, then the core issues in relation to their work with the patient that they have brought for
discussion that week, which have been withheld from the discussion in the session until this point.