Abstract
During the fall of 2007, after 25 years of moving from therapist to therapist with little relief, I began sessions with a counselor focused on boundary dissolution and shame. Encouraged by suggestions that I consult published research as a means of understanding my condition, I began a journal. This autoethnography is drawn from my journal. It is a personal record of child maltreatment, of boundary dissolution, of the resulting psychopathology, and of successful psychotherapy. Special attention is given to the intergenerational transmission of child abuse and to the role played by affect/script theory in the therapeutic process.