The physician attempts to heal herself

A handsome young man, a pizza-sized chocolate chip cookie, and her coveting of both---the cookie more than the young man---cause psychiatric resident intueri to try out some "disciplined personal involvement" on herself in order to change her negative thinking and "correctively modify [her own] pathological behavior."

ELICITATION PHASE (patient learns how to describe and analyze the problem situation).

(1) Situational Description:
A wonderfully attractive man was eating a very large chocolate chip cookie. The cookie was the size of a large pizza. While chewing on a bit of cookie, he looked up, saw me staring at the cookie, and smiled at me. I quickly looked down, sighed, and walked away.

(2) Situational Interpretations:
He was gleefully enjoying our cookie disparity. If he wanted to share the gigantic cookie, he would have offered some to me. However, he must be one of those entitled and grandiose types who believes that if I only worked harder, I’d have cookies of my own.

(3) Situational Behavior:
I didn’t say anything. I just walked away.

(4) Pinpointing the Actual Outcome:
I didn’t get a bite of the gigantic chocolate chip cookie. :(

(5) Pinpointing the Desired Outcome:
I wanted to try the gigantic chocolate chip cookie.

(6) Contrasting the Actual Outcome and the Desired Outcome:
No, I didn’t get what I wanted.

Are you trying to tell me that *I* had something to do with it? What?

To find out what happened when the young doctor got to the "Remediation phase," read the rest of her post, A situational analysis...