In Treatment 3x17

Sunil remains resistant to Paul’s suggestions – and my question remains whether this is because Paul is on the wrong track approaching Sunil despite his best intentions. The cultural divide has hardly narrowed over the course of the past four sessions. To make matters worse, Sunil’s mind is mostly elsewhere, as India is hit by a flood and his native village has been wiped away. He is still convinced that his daughter-in-law is having an affair and Paul will not be able to persuade him that her innocent flirtations do not prove she is betraying Sunil’s son Arun. For Sunil she is disgracing his family. He also had another disturbing dream in which he mutilated Arun’s unconscious body in order to save his grandchildren from an ominous female figure who seems to embody his revulsion and attraction to Julia, as well as his love and shame for Malini. He starts shouting angrily in Bengali at the implication he ever would have had harmed Manili, while Paul is more concerned that Sunil would ever harm Julia. Will Paul eventually be able to overcome this impasse of Sunil’s resistance to therapy?