Few missed appointments, perhaps due to the Anxiety from Uncertain Change. The Doc mused, “May be she is not ready for opening up about her Past, or is too vulnerable within, to connect with the Subconscious or Unconscious Memories of the Past. The Compartmentalization of Emotional Impressions and their Splitting or Fragmentation of Memories into parts is how Mind manages to compress and Zip Life’s Data in Storage Spaces. Mind-fulness is a good slogan for business but Mind-less is sometimes the only way that a Persona copes with Unpleasant and Painful Memories of Abuse and Psychological Trauma.”
During the ‘No Show’ Sessions, Doc stared at the empty Chair of Patient, and hoped she is not “Lost in Transition“. Quarantined Memories are functional process which helps Self Preservation and Self Defense. Despite the Wish for Change and Pain of Stagnation, Actual Healing and Change involves Empathy, Compassion and Love. Change involves the Loss of Past Baggage but requires Gain of Hope and Courage to Seek New Possibilities.
The Doc Sensed his Anxiety of Rejection by patient and introspected “Will I be good enough as a Therapist?”. The Patient Sensing Dread (Fear) of Hope and Crisis of Choice, thought “Will my Past repeat?” Both of them were Reflecting on the Failures of their Pasts and wondered if Abandoning Hope will be better than the destabilizing sense of CONNECT they were experiencing.
The Transference-Countertransference phenomenon was playing out between the Doc-Patient Duo while the Therapy Plane was stalled in the Runway for months. During this period, their Mind started forgetting and detaching from the Prospects of Therapeutic Engagement. Their Lives were restored to the point, before the clinic registered and assigned the Doc-Patient Match. The Clinic policy was to close the File after 3 months of defaulted appointments (Did not Attend) or cancelled appointments.
Read next: Did this Impasse Resolve? Did the Therapy Plane remain dead on Runway or did it Fly?
See also: Tranference – Countertransference; Our Mind; Heal-the-Mind