ABSTRACT
I would like to discuss a session I had today with a thirty-year-old woman. She came into the consulting room and sat down; she never lies on the couch. She smiled and said, "Today I won't be able to stay sitting here." I asked her what that meant; she said she was very agitated. I asked her what she considered as being very agitated. She smiled and said, "My head is dizzy." She said her thoughts were running away, running over one another. I suggested that when she felt like that she also felt that she was losing control of her body. She smiled and said, "Perhaps; it looks as if that were true." When I continued, suggesting that when her mind was running away like that, her body had to follow her mind's movements, she interrupted me, saying, "Now, don't you try to make me stand still."
