How to manage vacations, weekends, illnesses, no-shows, and other disturbances of continuity

In the old days when analysts saw patients six days a week, they often referred to the “Monday crust”, that is, the “resistances” and other disturbances that arose during the break and that “interfered” with the treatment. Although we may understand the meaning of these phenomena somewhat differently, in these days of once or twice a week therapy we are often much less sensitive to the phenomenon itself.