@mickcooper77 The uncertainty around what’s happening is the most destructive. Decisions can’t be made on rumours. I wish they’d decide one way or the other and let us know
@JonathanShedler Freud is to psychodynamic therapy what the Wright brothers are to aeronautical engineering. Even in their first aircraft, lift, drag, thrust and gravity applied. So you can learn the basics from them, but no aeronatical engineer would stop there.
Patients communicate in psychotherapy via THREE channels
1️⃣words
2️⃣nonverbal communication
3️⃣countertransference
The most important information is often in the countertransference—and skilled therapists *use* it constructively
Here's an example of how
https://t.co/Ebf9Ta8lLl
@JonathanShedler Very interesting!
“Therapy is a relationship, so problematic relationship patterns show up in the therapy relationship too.” I see how this would happen when a client is seen several times a week. But is seeing a client once a week enough for relationship patterns to emerge?
@JDaviesPhD Both ‘patient’ and ‘client’ imply a kind of relationship. Thus either can have an impact on the therapeutic relationship. The real task is not to choose between them but to understand how each influences the therapist-client / therapist patient in sessions.
The Weeping Woman is the timelessly universal messenger of unfathomable and inconsolable human sorrow, the bearer of an elemental emotion that is as miraculously and beautifully human to contemplate as it is disturbing to behold (Christie’s)
Jung looked to the meaning and teleological dimension of the symbol, focusing on its attempt express some quality of the archetype, and its role of carrying new information and experiences to the individual.
I'm BAFFLED by therapists spending hours catching up on "notes." What in god's name are you writing? Who do you think they're for? Hint: Chart notes are NOT for your benefit—or your patient's (just the opposite). They should meet letter of the law & NOTHING MORE. Here's example: