The interactions between the dependent woman and her social environment that generate the wish to be a man are best demonstrated through clinical material. The first example is that of a dependent young woman, who lacked confidence in herself, and, in spite of repeated efforts, was unable to find a job. She always made such a poor impression on the prospective employer that inevitably she was turned away.

What is dependency? It is a technique of adaptation through reliance on another person. It is based on a conviction of helplessness and is normal in infancy, but infantile dependency in the adult is a confession of adaptive failure. The developmental prototype for the dependency relationship is the relationship between the child and the mother.

The adaptational responses of women to these institutional pressures in many ways are similar to the responses of members of the minority group in a caste system! Many women although by no means all consciously reject this prejudicial picture of themselves, but it is doubtful that few, if any, completely escape its deleterious effects on an unconscious level.

Masculine aspirations are frequently expressed by women patients during the course of a dynamic psychotherapy. The interpretation placed upon these aspirations by the therapist can be of vital importance to the ultimate outcome of the therapy.

Risk factors anything in our thinking, behavior, body or environment that increases the likelihood of illness are opposed by "resistance resources" we possess. These may include an optimistic way of looking at life, a good social support system, and a strong set of genes. The balance between risk factors and resistance resources largely determines whether we get sick or stay healthy.

I was sleeping in the fraternity house in college. I heard this cat in great pain. I looked out the window and here was this wretched black beast injured horribly in some way. He was screaming in terrible pain. There was a lot of blood pouring out of his rectum. It was more than that.

Dream Three. An airport ramp with a large airplane on it. I am pushing out a small biplane, tail first. Suddenly, I see the large plane has its wing in such a position I won't clear it. I yell, "Heads up!" Too late! My tail hits the wing of the bigger plane, but no damage is done.

I tore into his office madder than hell. He was sitting behind his desk. This time I was really going to tell him. He looked up and said, "What in hell do you want?" I just stood there and couldn't say anything. Then I turned around, but instead of walking away, I crawled away on my hands and feet with my ass up in the air.

This unbecoming simian like posture is a measure of his humiliation, but it is also something more. It is a symbol of "feminine" submission to the dominant male.

I was standing in a bull ring with a man I could not identify, someone uninitiated to bull fighting. The matador had gotten hurt. He was on the ground, and the bull was goring him. Blood was everywhere. The picadors with their capes were trying to draw the bull away from the matador.

Anxieties about homosexuality, when subjected to an adaptational analysis, can be broken down into three motivational components sexual, dependency, and power. The sexual component is the only one of these three that seeks sexual gratification as its motivational goal.