CHAPTER EIGHT
“It’s okay,” Lyssa said to her patient. “Take your time.”
“I’m still struggling with the concept of this,” Martin Schifford said. “Of therapy like this.”
“You’ve had a few sessions now,” she said. “We’ve discussed your childhood and your parents. You’ve told me about your work and your wife. But we do need to address the issue and the trigger point.”
“The incident at my father-in-law’s.”
“Yes. You witnessed a horrendous event. It must have been traumatic,” she said. “Were you physically injured?”
The hospital notes conveyed that Martin hadn’t received any serious physical injuries, but she had to get him talking about the event somehow.
“Not badly,” he said.
“But you and your wife haven’t been intimate since it happened, have you?”
Shaking his head, she read embarras
