Do you think there will ever be a movie that features a line such as “You graduated at the top of your class in liberal arts, we need your help”?

In “The Hunt for Red October”, he correctly surmises the Soviet-Lithuanian submarine captain is defecting to the United States and is not, as the Soviets claim, trying to unilaterally start World War III.

After being badly injured in a helicopter crash while a cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy, he eventually turns to academia and gets his Ph.D. in history and goes back to the Naval Academy to teach. He’s later recruited into the CIA where he becomes an analyst specializing in preparing biographies of high ranking Soviet military and civilian leaders.

And the feats of Sherlock Holmes, one of the world’s leading authorities on tobacco ashes, are too numerous to mention.

I’m wondering about attachment and transference with the therapist and the idea of escape and fantasy? How much do you think your strong feelings, constant thoughts, desires to be with your therapist are a way to escape from your present life? I wonder if the transference serves another purpose than to show us our wounds and/or past experiences, but is a present coping strategy for managing what we don’t want to face (even if unconsciously) in the present—-current relationships, life circumstances, etc. Can anyone relate to this concept of escape in relation to their therapy relationship? How does this play out for you?

In “The Sum of All Fears”, Ryan, who is intimately familiar with the personality of the new Russian leader, correctly surmises that he’s not completely in control of his military which have, in conjunction with Neo-Nazis, hijacked a nuclear bomb and a Russian aircraft carrier to launch pre-emptive strikes. He convinces the Soviet leader to stand down his forces in the face of an American counter-attack.

Similarly, public relations firm owner Martin McCabe finished with a first in philosophy at Cambridge. After retiring from the British Broadcasting Authority, he becomes the brains behind the public relations firm Prentiss/McCabe, constantly saving the New Labour government from their own excesses and mistakes.

In “Shadow Recruit” while working under the cover of an investment bank, he finds and spoils a plot to disrupt a terrorist attack staged by a Russian oligarch designed to crash the U.S. economy when he simultaneously dumps U.S. dollars onto financial markets.

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