Hamlet therapy session

Hamlet therapy session

  • Submitted By: hockey44
  • Date Submitted: 04/30/2014 10:39 AM
  • Category: English
  • Words: 850
  • Page: 4


Welcome back to my office Hamlet. Sorry If I inconvenienced you when I called this emergency appointment, but after reviewing your test results and my notes from our previous sessions I felt it was best for both of us if you came in right away. I understand you have been having a tough couple of weeks with your family and personal life? Well if you don’t mind I would like to get through everything I have to say first before hearing your opinion and what you can do to help me help you.

Getting straight to the point here Hamlet, I have come under the assumption that you are most likely suffering from Severe Depression. Your tests results were a major red flag for me and after reevaluating my notes from previous sessions I would like to apologize that I did not see the distress signals much earlier! First I would like to start off with something you said in our first session, “Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on ’t, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this. But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr. So loving to my mother” This was alarming to me as it showed me just how upset you are with your stepfather and mother. Contemplating suicide at such a young age is never a good thing and I want to make sure we move on from this as first and foremost.

Next I was extremely worried when you were once again talking to yourself saying, “O, What A Rogue And Peasant Slave Am I!” This meaning that you still see yourself as a useless piece of trash that has yet to do anything regarding your fathers death. I am worried that you will eventually become so upset with yourself for not seeking revenge that you...

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