ABSTRACT
On 2 August 1990 Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait. On 17 January 1991 a United Nations-authorised coalition force, led by the United States, initiated a war known as “Operation Desert Storm” with an aerial bombardment whose mission was to expel Iraqis from Kuwait. Even though Peter had experienced a dramatic therapeutic regression, the reality that a new war would soon take place seemed to trigger symtoms arising from the impact of previous wars on Peter and the image of Gregory within him. Peter continued to make references to the impending war in the Persian Gulf while exploring his childhood. Peter watched the war on the television and then had dreams of bodies that had been blown apart in Vietnam. Peter began giving associations to his “bows and arrows” dream, not like a veteran of the Vietnam War, but as a “veteran” of psychoanalytic work.
