How the Therapy Worked: The Case of Dr. Pickles and Ann

Abstract

The author writes a discussion of Judy Pickles's case description drawing on his control–mastery perspective. He views the ubiquitous dramas that characterize this analysis as challenges to the patient's pathogenic beliefs, taking the form of implicit questions through action and interaction. The questions relate to salient themes in this patient's traumatic lived experience with others, recontextualized and worked through in the analytic situation.