ABSTRACT
Douglas's eighth birthday has come and gone and he still does not always remember the author's name. Nothing in his behavior indicates that he sees the author as a person of any particular importance to him. He recognizes his name when he hears it but he never uses it. He still gives him the feeling that it is not especially essential if he or someone else meet him when he comes to therapy. The author wonders what Douglas would do if another person stood there one day instead of him. Perhaps he would run up to the room just as willingly or unwillingly as usual, and discover only after the session was well under way that the person talking to him was not the author. Douglas's approach is physically violent. His sweeping gestures and sudden outbursts cause breakages to the author's personal possessions.
