ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the therapy sessions of the client Walter in Season 2 of the HBO television series In Treatment to illustrate the quest for healing and self-awareness. It compares Walter's journey to the mythical story of Perceval and his relationship to the Fisher King on his vision quest for the Holy Grail. In Treatment is set within the psychotherapy sessions of four patients and their therapist Dr. Paul Weston. The goal of therapy is not to reach some illusory state of happiness, but to release oneself from the grips of internal angst and the turmoil that lives in the unconscious. The quest of the knowledge seeker is a developmental journey that may heal the split from their own authentic natures, where all psychological and emotional problems originate. The quest to truly learn about oneself is a place of psychic integration and redemption.
