Mr. Milligan will feel free to refer to other personalities in order to allow him to discuss feelings which he otherwise finds hard to express. Evidence will be his frank discussion with staff.

Plan:

(A) Do not deny that he experiences these dissociations.

(B) When he believes he is another personality, elicit his feelings in that situation.

(4)

When the mini-group began working in the garden in midMay, Rosalie Drake and Nick Cicco discovered that Danny was terrified of the hand-run Rototiller. They began a deconditioning program, telling Danny to come closer and closer to the machine. When Nick said that one of these days he’d lose his fear of it and even be able to run it, Danny nearly fainted.

Several days later; one of Rosalie’s other male patients refused to cooperate in the gardening project. Allen had noticed that from time to time the man seemed to enjoy picking on her.

“This is stupid,” the patient shouted. “It’s obvious you don’t know a goddamned thing about gardening.”

“Well, all we can do is try,” Rosalie said.

“You’re just a fucking stupid broad,” the patient said. “You don’t know a goddamned thing more about gardening than you do about group therapy.”

Allen saw her near tears, but he said nothing. He let Danny out for a while to work with Nick. Back in his room later, Allen started to come on the spot but felt himself jerked back and slammed into a wall. That was something only Ragen could do, and only close to the moment of switching.

“Jesus, what’s that for?” Allen whispered.

“In garden this morning you permit that big mouth to offend a lady.”

“Well, it’s none of my doing.”

“You know rules. You do not stand by and see woman or child hurt or offended without taking action.”

“Well, why didn’t you do something?”

“I was not on spot. It was your responsibility. Remember that, or next time when you are coming on spot, I break your head.”

The next day, when the aggressive patient insulted Rosalie again, Allen grabbed him by the collar and glared ferociously. "Watch your goddamned mouth!”

He hoped the man wouldn’t start anything. If he did, Allen decided, he was going to leave and let Ragen do the fighting. That was for sure.

Rosalie Drake found that she constantly had to defend Milligan against those in the hospital who said he was nothing more than a eon man faking to get out of a prison sentence and against those who were offended by Allens demands for special privileges, pitting one staff member against another, by Arthurs arrogance and by Tommy’s antisocial attitude. She was furious when she heard some of the nurses complain that Dr. George’s pet patient was taking up too much of the hospital’s time and facilities. And she cringed when she heard the sneering remark again and again: "They worry more about that rapist than they do about his victims.” When you were trying to help the mentally disordered, she insisted, you had to put aside feelings of vengeance and deal with the individual.