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E: Here is a patient who called me up several weeks previously. I said, “Hello.” And he said, “Ba-ba, be, be, be, be, ba.” I said, “Write to me,” and hung up.
Now, several weeks later, he writes this long story about his neurosis and seven years’ devotion to drugs. I thought immediately, getting a late letter in reply to my telephone request, “Here is one of those professional patients who never is going to get well, and who will play me for a sucker to get all my time and energy and have it result in a failure.” So I read that letter and wrote back a letter that I thought would appeal to him and induce him to write another letter that I could use in teaching.
(To Jane.) All right.
Jane: (Continues by reading the letter of response that Erickson wrote.)