Fuego III

the insane therapist — diary entry
23 / 02 / 2018
· Talk in a child’s voice about buses 38, 180, 136 and 55. And
use a framing device to be the patients friend in childhood
incidents that still bothered them...
· Make a huge tepee hut out of blankets and furniture to then
get in and discuss agoraphobia with a patient...
· Act out a scene where I was the patient, and the patient the
Doctor...
· Diagnose walks in the Park...
· Listen to Ravi Shankar in the middle of a session to get the
depressive patient to dream of more exotic surroundings and
things they have yet to see...
· Act out a nightmare a patient was having as realistically as
possible to gauge the recondite truth that these ideas are
created by the mind...
· Talk about a bird as if a tree...
· Paint pictures of unicorns...
· Speak to a patient under a white sheet...
· Act out a dream involving a wizard woman covered in a
brown sheet...
· Sympathetically read a short story of a patient enthused
with “fears of laughter”...
· Imitated playing a piano naked...
· Took a banana, stuck it in my ear and said DADA...
note written — London, 2018
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