ABSTRACT
Sixteen-year-old Charles came to see the author with his parents. His family doctor has asked him to see him because he was still enuretic and this made for great difficulties in his school and general social life. Charles was a well-built adolescent with no particular distinguishing features. For some reason, Charles’s problems had only become a rigid routine within the interaction he had developed with his parents. The author tried to explores with Charles how he experienced his problems. Charles knew that, however frequent and overwhelming his urge to urinate, he had never actually wet himself during the day. Charles argued that what his parents thought was kindness and tolerance towards his wetting and frequency had in fact led to his being confused about it. Charles had counted twenty nights without “accidents” and both he and his mother were very happy with this.
