Well, it depends how you want to do it. But you could structure the flashback to show the difference between what Dan is remembering - smut in vivid, lascivious detail - and what Dan is willing and able to convey to Abby. That's a key thing in therapy, how well you can explain things, how well the therapist is able to fill in the gaps. Abby is a good therapist, I think, and Dan is relatively open and communicative, but still there's going to be a huge lacuna, and I think the smut flashback would be a way to show that.
If you wanted to write it that way.
(Incidentally, I wanted my answer on the way Dan would talk to Abby about sex to be somewhere between straight-forwardly and awkwardly. I think there'd be elements of both. I think Dan would be more awkward and ashamed than he'd expect to be; I think he'd be a little shocked at how difficult it was for him. But I still think he'd be better at talking about sex, and more comfortable with it, than most people; the shock would come from his expectation that he'd be almost entirely comfortable. Also, I think he'd cover his residual discomfort well. For one thing, people in therapy are often in performance mode, and Dan is a sports anchor. In performance mode, he knows from covering, and I think he'd use that skill to defend himself from Abby.)
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Date: 2004-10-26 07:33 am (UTC)Well, it depends how you want to do it. But you could structure the flashback to show the difference between what Dan is remembering - smut in vivid, lascivious detail - and what Dan is willing and able to convey to Abby. That's a key thing in therapy, how well you can explain things, how well the therapist is able to fill in the gaps. Abby is a good therapist, I think, and Dan is relatively open and communicative, but still there's going to be a huge lacuna, and I think the smut flashback would be a way to show that.
If you wanted to write it that way.
(Incidentally, I wanted my answer on the way Dan would talk to Abby about sex to be somewhere between straight-forwardly and awkwardly. I think there'd be elements of both. I think Dan would be more awkward and ashamed than he'd expect to be; I think he'd be a little shocked at how difficult it was for him. But I still think he'd be better at talking about sex, and more comfortable with it, than most people; the shock would come from his expectation that he'd be almost entirely comfortable. Also, I think he'd cover his residual discomfort well. For one thing, people in therapy are often in performance mode, and Dan is a sports anchor. In performance mode, he knows from covering, and I think he'd use that skill to defend himself from Abby.)