ABSTRACT
The patient is a 32-year-old screen and television writer who is married, childless, and currently he and his wife are planning to have a baby. He brings the following material on a Monday session (he is in analysis four times per week). He is worried about his mother, who is living in a foreign country with an allegedly unscrupulous man. She is suffering from a progressive dementia, presumably Pick’s Disease. He is also worried about work in his industry. He himself is suffering from Crohn’s Disease, a chronic auto-immune inflammation of the bowel. He had just had a colonoscopy that revealed a slight worsening of his condition.
