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This discussion sees this transformative one-session treatment as a wonderful exemplar of the power of witnessing another person’s life and traumas. I imagine Freud, the patient, and the world at particular moments in historical and personal time, placing them all on a precipice. It is important to remember that although a precipice can be a point of great danger or even peril, it can also be the brink of something new and life transforming. I argue that this precipice allowed a unique witnessing moment leading to transformative growth for the patient.