ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of a person named "K" who approached an educational psychologist to request a classroom observation of her son, J, and for suggestions on ways she might help J at home. However, in the meantime, K-despite having brought her son to therapy-was now threatening to disrupt the treatment he was receiving, because she was completely unable to trust other people to help J. When she started work, and had met the first boyfriend who was 'not just interested in sex', she fell in love and married. Instead she demanded to be given more 'grown up' work, to which her boss responded by providing her with tasks suitable for someone of a higher grade, but without the salary to match. People who are otherwise able and talented, but who act out their feelings of abuse in the workplace, sometimes destructively recycle their frustration into their families, and may allow it seriously to undermine their health.
