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The treatments should be of benefit.

—then you should see some fairly immediate improvement when he realizes these steps will be taken. He has frozen up out of fear. The actions that he has taken he has not approved of. Those he wanted to take seemed, for inner or outer reasons, forbidden, and in frustration he adopted the symptoms.

He felt particularly sensitive looking for a job precisely when his book had arrived in the bookstores. This seemed the one time when he should not have to look, you see.

(“Do you think it’s anything we should know in dealing with this problem?”)

He has not so far. The chiropractic treatments should help in releasing the arms physically, and in keeping the structure in balance, since he has been unable to do so on his own. This should quiet nervous reactions, and give him time to recover.

(“Should he consider going back to nursery school next year?”)

If he is going to have an outside job it is as good as any, and after the summer should not bother him. It fills certain spontaneous needs. If however effort is to be made to find another solution—

The order to eat, he interprets as an order, you see. The encouragement to eat is different. Now wait. (Pause, eyes closed.) Again, fried foods should be avoided. He has been right, avoiding tomato juice in the morning, instinctively. He does not need that acidity then. It is aggravating to him. The apricot you see is soothing. He has avoided fresh salads however, and you both need them. Eggplant is good. Too much whole milk is bad. In his coffee is sufficient.

It may be advantageous, though this is a small point, to change the living room furniture to a position that it has not been in since his illness, you see. The bed should definitely be north and south, now. That bathroom barrier should be pulled in half.

(“Yes, but now that he understands more, his fear should fade away.”)

There will be no danger there, and it should be of benefit.