ABSTRACT
May was a May: successful Writer when she started therapy. She was a frequent contributor of comedy skits to several popular television shows and was well-off financially. Many people would have envied her accomplishments. However, she was not at all satisfied with herself. First, she didn’t really enjoy writing. She had to struggle all week to squeeze out two skits of three or four pages each, and she could only manage to do that after she had smoked a joint or two of marijuana. Second, her ambition was to be a serious writer, not a writer of witty skits, and this ambition had long been frustrated. Each time she tried to write something serious, it came out so melodramatic that it was unintentionally funny. She seemed “doomed” to write only commercial comedies.
