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This article explores the circulation of fantasy in the television drama, In Treatment. Drawing on Roger Silverstone's application of Winnicott's ideas to the socio-cultural role of television in everyday life, it takes up a psycho-cultural position on the role of television in the context of the broad cultural agreement that we now exist in a highly mediatised age. The article examines the implications for experiences of identity, and suggests that media have become psychological objects of the inner world and serve to allay the anxieties and contradictions of contemporary culture.