Short Story: The Psychologist, and her strange request.

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The well-known psychologist, Audrey Remorshe, held weekly self-help groups, in the community centre, of her local city. This particular Friday night, she made a rather strange request of her group. She told the members of the group to pick a cartoon character for themselves, such as Mickey Mouse, or another one like that, and then to act out as that character, in the group setting. She told them that their essential character would then come out of themselves during this characterisation, as their choice is emotionally linked into it. Human characteristics are usually exaggerated in the character of the cartoon figure, by the quirks in their personality. One old man picked the cartoon figure for himself of Uncle Scrooge McDuck. Audrey told him that this meant that he was not so much a scrooge in his way of living, but that he would like to be fabulously wealthy, so as to circumvent his current lack of money problems. He has identified with the need to have funds to live in this world. But the cartoon figure picked, was obsessed by money, and this far going in that direction is worse than not having any money at all, when we remain simply coherently loving people of others, rather than of money. She thus ended her little analysis of why she thought that he had picked Scrooge McDuck. She asked George if this was an accurate observation of why he had chosen as he had done. He winked slyly at her, "Well, no," he said. "Look at my face, don't I just look the dead image of that old duck now, don't I." Audrey had to admit that he did. Sometimes, psychological cladding hides the real answer, and this guy had picked, as he had picked, simply because he thought that he bore some strange physical resemblance to this old duck figure. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com This psychologist liked to sleuth things out of people.