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AS THE TITLE of Dr. Schimel's paper indicates, he has focused on a theme conspicuously met up with in dealing with obsessional characters, namely, power or control over others.
It is clear that he has had a wide and impressive therapeutic engagement with obsessional individuals. He has familiarized us not only with that type of psychobiological orientation, but also with the formidable challenges such persons present to those who deal with them, including in particular the therapist.
Dr. Schimel has additionally reviewed certain core issues underlying obsessional patterning such as the guilty fears and rage, the disgust and decay phenomena and the possible depressive and paranoid underpinnings. These particularly insightful conceptualizations have emerged out of the experience of experts when confronted with the obsessional under great strain.
As Dr. Schimel has so powerfully demonstrated, the intimate texture of the obsessional's personal encounters in the waking state and during sleep are for the most part illusory. Yet often the dream paradoxically better illuminates and sharpens the