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Presenter: The patient has been in analysis with me for six months, four times a week. When she started treatment she had some psychosomatic problems – haemorrhage and diarrhoea – and she was getting thinner.
Bion: Who gave it the name, ‘psychosomatic’?
P: I did.
B: What did she call it?
P: She said that she was physically ill. She felt that the problems were related to various occurrences during her life.
B: She was simply complaining of a whole series of things? Anything from being anxious to having a haemorrhage?
P: Yes. She was anxious because she had had a year's treatment with a psychiatrist who had once kissed and embraced her.
B: Do you know the psychiatrist?
P: Yes.
B: This is a great disadvantage. One would like to discuss a particular patient, and yet one can get involved in the professional behaviour of a colleague. It's a nuisance, a real problem. At the same time there is nothing to stop stories being told about you.