ABSTRACT
The clinician provides the details about his Asperger's patient named as Alan was nineteen years old when the therapeutic dialogue presented took place. Alan's struggles have focused on establishing relationships with peers, especially female peers, and escaping from what he feels is the trap of his parental home. His younger sister has gone on to university, leaving Alan with a sense of being stalled in the backwater of his parental home and going nowhere. Alan does not have a strong sense of identity, in the sense Erik Erikson has given to this phrase in reference to adolescent development. Alan's typical way of expressing himself can be intense, but also highly intellectualised in a very detailed and complicated manner. Although Alan had frequently mentioned feelings around him being predominantly submissive in his sexuality, there seemed to have been no room to really explore this theme at any length.
