Abstract
This is an extract from a novel completed early in 1972 after some experience of encounter groups and related activities. It takes the form of an imaginary co-counselling situation, recorded and transcribed from tapes, but only my side of the conversation in the role of client is given, while the responses of Janice, my counsellor, are eliminated in order to prevent the co-counselling device getting in the way of the story.
The main theme of the book is my emotional life, past, present and potential, especially in relation to women and most particularly in relation to my mistress Gert, my present wife Stephanie, my former wife Rita and my mother. The project was undertaken in the hope that readers would not sit back and see the experiences as only relevant to the author, but would be willing to identify themselves either with him or other characters, as children, parents, husbands, wives, lovers and friends.