PATIENT #62: Thank you, Director. DIRECTOR: So, let’s pick up where we left off, shall we? Do you remember? PATIENT #62: Yes. I was telling you about the lump on the side of my head. DIRECTOR: That’s right. And didn’t I and two other doctors examine you and confirm for you that there WAS no lump on the side of your head? PATIENT #62: Yes, Director. DIRECTOR: Good. So what shall we talk about today? Any more dreams? PATIENT #62: But there IS a lump on the side of my head. (The patient is touching her temple.) PATIENT #62: I can still feel it right now. It’s a little smaller, but . . . And I looked at it— DIRECTOR: How could you have looked at it? There are no mirrors in your room. PATIENT #62: I used a spoon. And I saw stitches. It’s an incision. You cut me open and did something to me. I know you did. And I know you’re not really a doctor. DIRECTOR: How have the nightmares been? PATIENT #62: What? DIRECTOR: Your mother sent you here because you were having terrible nightmares.
