ABSTRACT

Antonio worked as an engineer for a construction company for about two years, but left some six months before beginning analysis. He complained that he did not comprehend why he acted in the ways that he did. He told me that he had found the construction company very challenging and thought he had done quite well there, but there were problems. He paused for some minutes, seemingly in contemplation, before resuming his account. He said that it had been ‘interesting’ how he had gone through a sort of crisis with his boss: he initially quite liked him, but then he believed his boss had been less than thrilled with him.