ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the first phase of analysis of Frank. Frank, who was now working toward his master's degree while teaching in a junior high school, regarded author's colleague as rather a special mentor. A few weeks into the course, Frank approached me with the request for psychotherapy. Frank had grown up in what would probably best be described as working-class neighborhoods that shaded off into poverty, with the kind of racial and ethnic mix that has both vitality and a potential for violent confrontation all at the same time. One incident which hurt Frank and contributed to this disillusionment occurred when this man told Frank that he had seen his father go into a back room of a bar with a prostitute to whom he paid one dollar for a "blow job". Frank as an adult offered the cynical explanation that his father was too pre-occupied with booze to care about sex.
