A Personal Note on Paranormal Arrangements and Therapeutic Leverage

A middle aged woman consulted the author about her marital situation. The marriage was stable until the husband stopped drinking and began to lose weight. At that point he discovered that other women were attracted to him and he became openly critical of the wife and her treatment of him. The husband agreed to enter therapy with the goal of understanding himself and effecting a resolution of the situation. During the fourth session he began talking about his girl friend. I immediately began thinking about driving from the South Shore to the North Shore, passing the Long Island Expressway, to visit Nelson, who was at that time my supervisor. The patient then told me that he recently felt compelled to get in his car and drive north to the Long Island Expressway to a long-term parking area. Upon doing this he met his girl friend leaving the lot. Neither could explain what had drawn them to this spot. It was not their habit to meet there. I understood my precognitive anticipation of the patient's parking lot communication as well as his paranormal experience of a symbiotic relatedness between us and between the patient and his girlfriend. Knowing the patient's history of alcholism and early abandonment, I formulated an intervention designed to resolve his status quo resistance (complaining about his wife) and activate in the treatment those feelings which the resistance and, earlier, the alcoholism, prevented him from experiencing. The reasoning behind my choice of intervention was that two objects cannot occupy the