ABSTRACT
June entered treatment in her mid-thirties, when she was suffering from severe anxiety, with compulsive and addictive behaviors that seemed to trap and control her. She was attractive, but had a dejected look on her face, except for when she felt inspired by ideas and visions that she associated with me and who I represented to her. As soon as she would stop a complex of compulsive actions, such as eating, shopping, or raging at her boyfriends, she would feel an internal emptiness and numbness. She was not yet aware of the underlying depression and its infant sources, but she wanted to feel, to feel better, and to find meaning in her life by exploring and examining who she was. Another presenting symptom was that of overwhelming guilt and its accompanying fantasy of being a criminal. This symptom related to the way she had left her first husband, her son, and her entire family in Australia.
