ABSTRACT
Wolfgang is a fifty-five-year-old company employee who likes to be called “Wolf”. Reorganisation by his firm has reduced his status to that of a marginal figure. He feels offended, hurt, and humiliated. The supportive exchanges with his doctor and treatment with antidepressive drugs and sleeping pills were helpful to a certain extent, but after months of treatment he still “sees no light at the end of the tunnel”. His psychiatrist was committed to his cause, even writing a letter to the company management complaining about the way his patient had been treated. At the beginning of therapy, Wolf mentioned the fact that he could never remember his dreams. Wolf feels dependent on their appreciation and recognition, which gives him a feeling of security. There is much that makes him angry, but he is incapable of moderating his responses. In the final brief therapy session, Wolf sums up by saying that the treatment has put the ground back under his feet.
