ABSTRACT

It begins to sound as if her father is tempting her to submit, give in, let his evil power protect her. But perhaps not. Certainly he maintains a system of grandiose helpfulness. He does it with other people outside the family. But does her association, in this example and the previous one, to her father's behavior, after the therapist's statement of his feeling, necessarily reveal an insight? After all, she could be playing the therapist off against the father, seductively presenting the father as the villain. In addition, one will note that the sequence of events in this exchange with her father is precisely the same as the therapist'S explication of his participation with her. It is the same melody.