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Present: Drs. Marvin Adland, Charles Baker, Clay Barritt, Donald Burnham, John Cameron, Frederic Conkling, John Fort, Jan Foudraine, Milton Hendlich, Harry Hinson, LeFever, George Nesbitt, Ping-Ni Pao, David Ratnavale, Clarence Schulz, Harold Searles, Helm Stierlin
Harold F. Searles (HFS): Today I want to present Mrs. Joan Douglas, a 46-year-old woman, who was admitted here in July, 1951. She worked with another therapist on our staff for twelve months, and then after a couple of months without a therapist she began seeing me in January, 1953. So that will be nine years next January that we have worked together. I want to devote the bulk of the time to the work she and I have done since the last presentation in October of 1959, so I will be very sketchy, indeed, in covering her history.
She is now 46 and will be 47 next month. She is the mother of four children. Joan is the third oldest in a family of six living children. The child first born in the family was a brother who died in infancy and next is a brother who is four years older than herself, whom we hear a great deal about, a lawyer in New York and evidently very successful, a fairly intelligent person with a great deal of intuitive capacity and all-around a very impressive person. Next is her sister, Mary, two years older than Joan who is married with children. She has been our most helpful relative in Joan’s treatment in terms of keeping up contact with Joan. Bill would be next in that regard. Then comes Joan and then a brother two years younger who has been very successful. This brother is the only sibling who has stayed married. Next is a brother four years younger, divorced and remarried, in analysis. Next was a brother six years younger who also died in infancy. Then a brother eight years younger, divorced and remarried, extremely unstable, mercurial and exhibitionistic, also in analysis. She has had few visits from relatives.
Joan’s father inherited a business which he ran successfully. He was interested