Monday, December 06, 2010

In Treatment: Sunil, Week 7



ClinkShrink's dream has come true! A session in the jail. Sunil was locked up and soon he'll be deported back to India, and we learn that this was part of a grand plan, his only way to get home to India. He faked the whole creepy/dangerous scenario, aware that if the police came and he refused to show his papers, he'd get arrested and deported. Couldn't he just have shoplifted an apple?

Paul is angry. What was real? Was it all farce on his therapy? Sunil points out his assorted boundary transgressions as he created a therapist/friend scenario, and Sunil says that Paul got something out of the sessions as well in their shared loneliness. And to ease Paul's anger (oy, he curses at the patient, my idea of a no-no), he lets him in on a new twist to the stories, once again drawing Paul in: his wrong-caste girlfriend who committed suicide was pregnant with his baby.

Sunil sings to Paul as the guard escorts him off.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought this was a great execution of a plan by Sunil. I do not understand why Paul or any therapist would be so upset by it. Sunil gets what he wants and probably so does his daughter in law- is that so wrong?

Anonymous said...

Correctional officer, not guard. This still won't lure me into watching. Sounds like they were playing off the Poddar-Tarasoff story line. Of course, now the immigration attorney can challenge deportation by saying it will be detrimental to his mental health to send him to a country where he won't get longterm psychotherapy and will be cut off from social supports. Immigration law, the newest area of forensic psychiatry.
--Clink

Anonymous said...

I was blown away by this episode. I thought for sure Sunil and/or Julia would come to a violent end.

Anonymous said...

you can't watch, dear. we don't have hbo tv. it's not a question of luring into watching. we also don't have an irish wolfhound puppy.

Anonymous said...

http://www.indianpsychiatry.com/

Immigration officer should check out psychiatry in India.