The surrounding soup an emerging self is steeped in spawns a smorgasbord of possible selfobject experiences to make structure of. While self psychology theory can often accentuate the more positive end of the selfobject spectrum, the negative selfobject experience can be just as potent and formative. In this paper, I work to illustrate the ways I believe the negative selfobject experience—as posited by Mark Gehrie and David Terman—shaped pathology as well as a set of beneficial skills and talents within one of my patients. Employing a clinical vignette in which two interlocking dreams are explored, I describe a progression towards a crucial moment of meeting in which my patient’s exquisitely constructed talents offer me the gift of healing, and my affect within such healing presents my patient a pathway to change.