Publisher's Synopsis
Peter is a 35 year old man who is currently unemployed. His partner is very busy with her career and Peter feels she barely notices that he is struggling. Normally very active physically, Peter has given up on exercising. He is saying 'no to social invitations and has also stopped engaging in one of his favorite hobbies: watching films. He describes a sort of numbness: he says he 'doesn't think' about any of these things. While he can identify a degree of 'anxiety', he has difficulty articulating his emotional experience. Marc begins here by asking about the 'lack of purpose and sadness' that Peter had referred to. When Peter introduces the word 'heaviness', Marc picks it up and occasionally refers to it in externalizing language as he seeks to get a picture of the problem in general. What emerges as some of the primary effects of the heaviness in Peter's life?
