Medical Mystery: Why was woman having violent thoughts about her loved ones?
My patient was in agony. She was thinking about killing her husband. She spoke in halting phrases about why she had come for psychotherapy, frequently stopping to ask whether she really was going to murder her husband. Or whether I thought she was a monster. Or if I was going to call the police. I was not going to call the police. Instead, I turned our conversation to what she was doing to prevent herself from killing her husband. She brightened considerably and talked more r