ABSTRACT
Robert was not a happy person. He found himself stuck between wishing to be wanted and an intense desire to be left completely to his own devices. Once Robert was back from his holiday and resumed his university studies, he found he could no longer live with other students in shared accommodation; he had to move out. For Robert, the much wished-for safety net became an inescapable cobweb. Robert would pay him back with what he called the silent treatment: he would feel an immense secret triumph in rendering the therapist impotent through remaining completely silent. At the same time, co-existing with this contempt, authors both knew that Robert also experienced author’s mistakes as something of an irreparable chaos. Robert was well aware that the real reason was that he felt too self-conscious to undress in the presence of the other boys, let alone have showers with them.
