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Therapist: I hear you've been having some problems with your band, and I wonder, would you like to tell me about them?
James: I'm not sure if it's one individual or...the band collectively, but maybe, um, it's their footwear that really bothers me. I'm not sure if it's just...any one shoe, but maybe just the thought of it. The thought of what's on their feet at any given moment distracts me.
Therapist: Tell me if there's any way that you can see of having an effect on the situation so that...you feel able to get close to them.
James: Well, I have given thought to this and I suppose in a practical, practical sense I could maybe ask for different shoes or socks on our rider. And a rider is something we have at every show and um you know they'll give us a deli tray, you know...candy...we can put any sort of footwear we want on it. And maybe if they had those different elements exposed to them they would lighten up a little.
Therapist: You've really lost me there.
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Therapist: I hear you've been having some problems with your band, and I wonder, would you like to tell me about them?
D'arcy: I'm sorry if I...I don't mean to be insulting at all, I just don't think that any amount of therapy is ever going to help this band. Jimmy is...is incredibly paranoid all of the time, and James, it's a different thing with him every week, it's, you know, one week he thought that his dog was possessed, and Billy just flew off the handle, and just couldn't take it anymore, so he said, you know, 'Well fine, let's get a witch doctor then.' So we went to a witch doctor. And next month it was the tarot card reader, you know... *****
Therapist: I hear you've been having some problems with your band, and I wonder, would you like to tell me about them?
Jimmy: [long pause] Um... [cut to later in session] Therapist: And put them here, that's D'arcy, and the other two men. And I'd like you to get across to these people how you feel when you get mocked, knowing that there are no consequences, except you feeling better about yourself, because they're not in the room.
Jimmy: [picking up one of the ducks from the chair] Um, Billy, um, sometimes when you tell me that my clothes are funny and my hair's too long it makes me feel really bad.
Therapist: You're getting into blaming and criticizing him for how he his...and...maybe he is that way.
Jimmy: [laughing] He's a duck!
Therapist: His is a duck, but the person you're using him as a symbol for is not a duck, right? You can just pretend he's in the chair and take that away if you like...
Jimmy: No, no, I like the duck.
Therapist: OK. [cut to picture of a cat in the chair]
Jimmy: [grabbing the picture] D'arcy...I really think you're a cool person and it would really make me happy if you would just try to appreciate me for who I am cause I really go out of my way to try to be nice to you. [cut] James, um, it made me feel really bad that you cut all your hair off right as mine was getting long and I felt that it was kind of like another ploy of yours to make me feel distance from the band, and I [cut] I deserve to be respected by you and everybody else.
Therapist: I hear you've been having some problems with your band, and I wonder, would you like to tell me about them?
Billy: Just let me make this analogy. You want to go to the circus and to get into the circus it costs you five...pence. So you stand in line, you don't have five pence but you really want to go to the circus. Someone comes along and says well, ell I'll take you into the circus and I'll pay the five pence. But you got to pay me back later. So they take you in the circus and take you out. Well, oh, when are you going to pay me back? I don't know, I'll get around to it sooner or later. That's the story of the band.