Like previous commentators I cannot resist saying something about my acute awareness of the unique quality of relationship between two individuals, and the consequent doubtfulness in making judgements without a living connection to either participant.

Reading attentively through the session itself I find an impression forming of a therapist who is rather caught up in a feeling that he has to make things happen: this leads him (my image of the therapist is of a man) to say rather obvious and unnecessary things at times, and I suspect this cuts across where the patient is going. An example of this is when the therapist says: 'It sounds as if you defend