Maggie's Farm

Excellent connection, Jephnol. You are right. I go a little further in extending the sentiment to the love-lost suffering shrink and her mentor who used doublespeak and reverse psychology on her instead of saying: 'Do the right thing.' Shrinks aren't taught to ponder personal dilemmas like that. They take an oath to relinquish a patient with whom they have a conflict. They don't write a smarmy opus about what to do, what to do, much less feel the need to consult a mentor. If they are worthy of the profession, they know what to do. I don't care how human nature plays into this situation: Do the right thing. Anything else is abuse of the office. Losers all.
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K,

That sentence jumped out at me, too, straightaway - for the reason you state. The whole thing seemed made-up and so damn puerile that I might have believed it had I not read the I'd-rather-be-a-romance-fiction-writer-than-a-shrink swill. Too much needless detail, too much hyperbole, too much cheap twaddle.

Funny - it has annoyed me since I read it, too. I suppose it's because we expect those who endeavor to fix our minds to be above this kind of tabloid histrionics.
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I'm so appalled I'm going to have to go to a shrink. Look what the swill dragged in....

Eventually, she felt she had to move away to break free--I can't get too specific--and when he heard she was going he said "I didn't know my love was so hard to bear." My new novel Vienna Triangle is filled with examples of transference and counter-transference leading to a tragic result.
#4.3 Brenda webster

hahahaha......... "I can't get too specific.." but if you read my book the VIENNA TRIANGLE, you'll find out why.

"I didn't know my love was so hard to bear." ? I think that's a musing from Cathy about Heathcliff.... the dastardly one with windswept hair and melancholia laced with grouchiness.

Brenda needs to pick a more romantic, alliterative name. I see 'Brenda' and I want to rock around the Christmas tree.
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