ABSTRACT

After two years in analysis, Celia King began a session by saying, `I can't believe what's happening to me. I think of myself as someone who doesn't mess up, but suddenly I feel like I'm turning into Calamity Jane. I scratched my car on a post in the garage, and I pulled something out of the icebox and spilled grease on myself. I have a headache. I can't do anything right. Before analysis, I was unhappy but I knew who I was. I don't know who I am or what I'm supposed to do.'