Ithaca, NY - Local therapist, Dr. Debra Kline, consulting with a fellow member of her profession on her patient, Paul Munn, admitted that she was somewhat puzzled by a recent statement he made insisting that therapy was merely there to help people get comfortable and stop panicking. He apparently thinks this state of mind is valuable in the animals we eat, but not something he chooses for himself.
She went on to say that the only connection between Munn’s unquestionable intelligence and the sickness destroying him was that he uses intelligence to justify sickness. He seems to alternate between viewing his own mind as an unstoppable force and as an inescapable curse, and I think it's because the only truly unapproachable concept for him is that it's his mind, within his control.
I have no doubt that he is bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass, because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is; it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just work, and the bottom line is some people are okay going to work, and some people, well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose.
At press time, Kline admitted that in Munn’s case she largely disregards most of her formal training and instead bases her assessments and subsequent treatment on what she learned from watching Susan Sarandon’s characterization of Dr. Wong in Rick and Morty.
