The Illustrated Woman

The Illustrated WomanWhen a new patient wanders into the office and stretches out to stutter forth a compendious ticker-tape of free-association, it is up to the psychiatrist immediately beyond, behind and above, to decide at just which points of the anatomy the client is in touch with the couch.In other words, where does the patient make contact with reality?Some people seem to float half an inch above any surface whatsoever. They have not seen earth in so long they have become somewhat airsick...