Finally I begin to see some light in the mystery. Sam’s primary process is to be an easy-going, decent fellow who feels a lot and who expresses himself kinesthetically. He claims he wants to talk things out and has trouble doing so. He dresses like a very sociable person.
His secondary process consists of the aggressive, nasty and unmannerly people in the house he is running from. His own aggression is obvious to me; I see his right hand on his hip while he is sitting, like a cowboy’s posture. What exactly is this split off anger about?
Amy: Why do you live there?
Sam (shaking his head ‘No’): People are there who did nasty things . . . came from other places. . . . [Changing the subject] … at the table I could not take it any more, such disgusting asses at the table. They act and eat terribly, throw stuff on the floor. I left the table several times . . . and I had to leave. Amy: How do they eat?
Sam: They throw stuff on the floor, not appetizing. . . you know? Or they throw stuff . . . awful.
Because I could not understand Sam’s story, I did not focus on the content of what he was saying. I did not think of those nasty guys as part of the world he has to learn to get along with or as part of his process, his own aggression and sloppiness.
Amy: But why are you there?
Sam: I was told it is the best place for me … ah . . . oh … I was forced to go.
Amy: But why were you sent there, did you steal? Did you hit someone? I would not live there even if they forced me.
Sam (interrupting me in a moral and indignant tone): Before ‘ I hit, I always talk to people!
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Posted: February 18th, 2011 under Anti-Psychotics.
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