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My style of case review compels me to be microscopic, rather than to offer a more general impressionistic perspective. Because of space limitations, consequently, I shall conduct a microscopic critique of significant portions of each session, but must lamentably ignore the remaining portions. What I do select, however, I shall try to make representative of the whole.
My initial observation is of Dr. Lombardi's own observation on beginning the first of these three sessions with his patient, Marta. He carefully assesses his analysand's mood and presence. His description then reveals his own parallel process, i.e., his ambient feelings as he listens to her. He notes that he feels bewildered and has difficulty focusing through the first part of the session.
I tentatively take this to suggest that he experiences being unconsciously “invaded” by the analysand and partially projectively counteridentified with her.
Marta relates a dream in which she is wearing red socks with holes in them, and, in the dream, denies that she is wearing socks. Dr. Lombardi asks her some questions to clarify this contradiction, but while doing so, finds that he cannot see her dream. He links his not seeing in the session with her, to her not seeing herself accurately in the dream.