ABSTRACT
The two previous chapters ended with omnipotence of thought ®guring as critical to a person's defending against, warding off, in short, evading unbearable guilt. In this chapter omnipotent defenses are not confronted head on. Instead I have taken a cue from Hamlet: ``By indirections ®nd directions out.'' If, as a possible outcome of treatment, a patient becomes more realistic, as a corollary or by-product, omnipotence will lose its hold.
