ABSTRACT
‘[Tim remembers being] … five years old … Mom stays at home and Dad has a sales job … Dad also drinks … When Dad comes home drunk and angry … Tim [faces the] rage of a man in his late thirties. He does not have the physical defences, but he can make himself ‘go away’. While Dad yells, Tim sits quietly. Then, when the fear becomes too much to handle, he projects himself into a corner of the room and another boy, Matthew, takes the father's abuse. Later, when it begins to feel safe again, Tim re-joins his body.’ (Bray-Haddock, 2001,p. 28)
