ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of Joachim is a twenty-five-year-old business management student. He has just failed his oral exams. He felt “completely blocked” and could not answer even the simplest questions. After the disastrous orals, he reluctantly allows his professor to make an appointment for him with psychiatrist. After two more sessions, Joachim tells psychiatrist that he now goes for a half-hour run every morning. He finds this calming and has started actually looking forward to it. He also feels somewhat stronger. Along the lines of the stimulus exposure approach used in behavioural therapy, we imagine the exam situation in detail: time and place, the reactions of the examiners, his own feelings and expectations.
