Journal Entery

Date: October 25, 2007

Entery Number: 22

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 130-131

I absolutely hate that stupid Doctor Gordon. He's a jerk. On page 129 he asks Esther, "Suppose you try and tell me what you think is wrong." (He's a psychiatrist.) Esther's reaction/thoughts would have been exactly the same as mine if I had been told that. "What did I think was wrong? That made it sound as if nothing was really wrong, I only thought it was wrong." Esther goes on to tell him some of the things that have been going on with her like how she couldn't eat or sleep or write. The whole time Doctor Gordon sat with his head bent "...as if he were praying..." When she finished he asked her what college she went to then started telling a little about his life as he had stayed at the college or near it when he was in the war. After that he just said "See you next week, then." He didn't give her any feed back at all. He didn't tell her anything, he didn't look at her much at all, and he didn't even talk about her. All he did was talk about himself. He just makes me mad. I would hate to have a psychiatrist like that if I every needed one, which I won't. He was costly too. It was twenty-five dollars an hour. Back then that was a lot. He was just a real jerk.