therapist-patient collaborating in a mutual fiction story

• ... counter-transference, the therapist-writer’s self-indulgence in the story. Two authors are now collaborating in a mutual fiction of therapy, though conventionally only one of them will write it
• talk going on in depth analysis is not merely the analysis of one person’s story by the other, and whatever else is going on in a therapy session – ritual, suggestion, eros, power, projection – it is also a contest between singers, reenacting one of the oldest kinds of cultural enjoyments that we humans know
• masochistic enjoyment of psychological horrors