VICKI MORGAN's THERAPY at THALIANS MENTAL CLINIC at CEDARS SINAI

EXCERPTED from  BEAUTIFUL BAD GIRL by GORDON BASICHIS

"Vicki was told it was the stigma and not the role itself that plagued her.  She was not ashamed of being in love with a married man, but ashamed of her image in a critical society.  Since she was a child and her father began sending her checks in the mail, Vicki had always associated money with love.  This, she was told, had fostered her greatest dilemma, especially when standard portrayals of love and romance conflicted greatly with her experience and interpretations.  Despite her hidden emotions and secret fantasies, she was haunted by  the reality that men had tried to but her,"

(page 237)


According to Basichis, Alfred visited Vicki at the mental hospital and it was perhaps one of their most intimate, non sexual, times.  She said she felt closer to him then she ever had.  When he had his final illness and was in the hospital for months, Vicki dressed herself as a nurse and was at his bedside tending to him so much that she was near a nervous breakdown from the effort.