She underlined them for herself.
The next morning, she called Leo’s new therapist. “I owe him an apology,” she said. “And I need supervision. Real supervision. On my own case.”
Elena looked at her bookshelf—now honest, messy, used. Libros Psicologia no longer meant books about psychology. It meant books that held the psychology inside the reader.
“You do. It’s like you’re listening to yourself.” libros psicologia
Elena referred him to a colleague the next week.
That night, she rearranged her Libros Psicologia shelf. She moved The Inner Child to the front. She took her own unfinished evaluation from the drawer and read it for the first time in a decade.
Then a letter arrived: Leo had been hospitalized. Not for anger. For a suicide attempt after his father threw him out. The discharge summary included a note from the hospital psychologist: “Patient reports his previous therapist terminated abruptly when he asked about her childhood. Classic countertransference avoidance.” She underlined them for herself
“I don’t flinch.”
She picked up the phone. Not to refer Leo to someone else—but to call her own therapist. The one she had quit six years ago, saying she “didn’t need it anymore.”
That night, she dreamed of her own father—a quiet man who never hit her, never yelled, just… never saw her. She woke at 3:00 a.m., heart racing. The dream vanished by 7:00 a.m. “And I need supervision
Elena sat on her office floor. She pulled out the hidden books— Shame and the Self first. Page 43 was creased. She had read it ten times.
One shelf was pristine: Jung, Freud, Beck. The other shelf was worn, dog-eared, almost hidden: The Inner Child , Attachment After Trauma , Shame and the Self .