I was wondering how Dr. Eden got the Lady to agree to that. Given the Lady’s somewhat childish reaction in this strip, she probably would agree the dr. did her a favor by allowing her to disassociate her mind from Jen’s…
for someone who doesn’t believe the lady exists Dr Eden seems to know exactly what buttons to push. i think this explains her future interest in Rona somewhat.
In the mind of Dr. Eden, the Lady is a split personality that needs to be resolved; as such, she’d have been studying its motivations and characteristics, trying to understand what caused Jen’s mind to separate. Learning what buttons to push, as it were, would have been one of her primary motivations; the fact that she’s playing along like this doesn’t mean she attaches any particular importance to what it’s been telling her. This is the same type of negotiation one uses in a hostage situation, really.
She aint really even wrong though, is she? It seems to me that they pretty much are a split personality. The lady’s supernatural aspects arn’t neccessairly relevant to the actual problem.
This “roleplaying” doesn’t just occur in psychiatry. Police officers are trained to “play the role” that someone who is “imbalanced” but not dangerous lays on them. It’s doubly important when the “imbalanced” person IS dangerous as is shown here. Strange though, in the last update, the speech bubble made it look as if “the Lady’s” voice appeared from somewhere else, Jen was behind Dr. Eden, and the voice bubble appeared in front WITH Dr. Eden staring off at some object ahead.
Uhl… I think that’s just a stylistic thing; we’re being given a quick intercut of the lady exposed through Jen, followed by Dr. Eden’s reaction and the Lady’s comment. Frames without explicit frame boundaries.
The question that isn’t completely clear here is whether Dr. Eden has actually noticed the eyes yet… and if so, how she’s handling that. (Does she have enough of Rona’s acceptance of the supernatural that she can cope with this and continue to treat the patient, or is she convincing herself it was a trick of the light?)
I was wondering how Dr. Eden got the Lady to agree to that. Given the Lady’s somewhat childish reaction in this strip, she probably would agree the dr. did her a favor by allowing her to disassociate her mind from Jen’s…
for someone who doesn’t believe the lady exists Dr Eden seems to know exactly what buttons to push. i think this explains her future interest in Rona somewhat.
Hmm. She’s playing a dangerous game here.
In the mind of Dr. Eden, the Lady is a split personality that needs to be resolved; as such, she’d have been studying its motivations and characteristics, trying to understand what caused Jen’s mind to separate. Learning what buttons to push, as it were, would have been one of her primary motivations; the fact that she’s playing along like this doesn’t mean she attaches any particular importance to what it’s been telling her. This is the same type of negotiation one uses in a hostage situation, really.
At least, that’s what I think.
She aint really even wrong though, is she? It seems to me that they pretty much are a split personality. The lady’s supernatural aspects arn’t neccessairly relevant to the actual problem.
This “roleplaying” doesn’t just occur in psychiatry. Police officers are trained to “play the role” that someone who is “imbalanced” but not dangerous lays on them. It’s doubly important when the “imbalanced” person IS dangerous as is shown here. Strange though, in the last update, the speech bubble made it look as if “the Lady’s” voice appeared from somewhere else, Jen was behind Dr. Eden, and the voice bubble appeared in front WITH Dr. Eden staring off at some object ahead.
Uhl… I think that’s just a stylistic thing; we’re being given a quick intercut of the lady exposed through Jen, followed by Dr. Eden’s reaction and the Lady’s comment. Frames without explicit frame boundaries.
The question that isn’t completely clear here is whether Dr. Eden has actually noticed the eyes yet… and if so, how she’s handling that. (Does she have enough of Rona’s acceptance of the supernatural that she can cope with this and continue to treat the patient, or is she convincing herself it was a trick of the light?)
It might be like the vampire thing, that you’ll only see it if you are already made aware of similar things.
She is no doubt getting a wibe though.