"I'm all alone," that's what it finally boils down to. Even now I have to say it in quotation marks. "You're alone? What kind of reason is that?" I can hear my own mother snapping at me, as though I had told her that people marry for love. Not that I have to justify myself. But let me tell you, if everyone understood what it is to be alone, the whole world would be committing suicide -- pills, guns, jumping off bridges, you name it. Being alone is like being the last person on earth. How long do you think you could stand walking around the deserted city, going on an impulse into the museum where the Hope diamond is, breaking the case, triggering the security alarm, and then crying, crying for hours, your whole body draped with glittering jewels, because no one comes to arrest you?

This unit explores the relationship between doctors and patients
within the context of relationships in general. The exercises provide
perspectives on healing, hierarchical roles between caregivers
and patients, self-disclosure and components of effective communication.