If we were hesitant and unconfident in our approach to their defiance, they would know that they could not trust us with the boiling cauldron of feeling which their family contained.
They had something to gain by the strategy. Did we really mean everybody? Would we weaken and capitulate if they didn't bring Don? With its own unconscious wisdom, the family elected Don to stay home and test the therapists. All in one place at once time, subject to the scrutiny and invasion of a stranger.
Their whole world would be exposed: all its caring, its history, its anger, its anxiety. “When Carl asked the Brices to bring their whole family to therapy, everyone in the family knew intuitively what that meant.
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