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THERAPIST
Sounds like you're feeling pretty desperate right now?
Hopeless?
CLIENT
(EXASPERATED AND SARCASTICALLY)
You think?
THERAPIST
Is this something you'd actually do?
CLIENT
Yeah. Totally. I may not have any of the roofies...
THERAPIST
This guy must make you pretty angry.
CLIENT
He's a piece of shit. And, um, he gets away with it. He just
gets away with everything because my boss is a slut.
THERAPIST
(PAUSE)
Sounds unfair. And it sounds like this is all getting
in the way of some of that stuff that you really value.
(PAUSE)
Like having a successful and meaningful career?
CLIENT
(SHIFTS UNCOMFORTABLY IN HER SEAT)
Mmm-hmm.
THERAPIST
It hurts when you're not getting closer to that.
CLIENT
It's awful. I'd kill him. I'd put a gun to his head, I would
pull the trigger to make him feel as awful as I do. No one
gets it.
THERAPIST
I'm really sorry that it's so hard right now.
CLIENT
(ANGRILY AND PRESSURED IN SPEECH)
Are you? I mean you're here because this is your job. You get
paid to do this. You get paid to be in this room. And um, I
don't know why I even bother really. It's not like, it's not
like you walk out of here thinking about this. I mean you
think about me probably the morning of when it's my turn
during the week to come in. Otherwise you just go home to your
great house and pretty wife. I don't even know you.
THERAPIST
(AFTER A LONG PAUSE)
I hear that you are really frustrated with this guy at49
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Schmalz, Jonathan. Oh G-d, A Borderline: Clinical Diagnostics As Fundamental Attribution Error, thesis, December 2011; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103389/m1/55/?rotate=90: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .