1/ "Personality patterns may be as invisible to a person as water to a fish. Some patients are entirely oblivious to their dysfunctional personality patterns and come to treatment only at the urging of others. When they arrive for a clinical consultation, they are likely to tell
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1. None of us fully know our own hearts & minds
2. What we don't know can cost us
3. Unknown parts self can be understood & potentially reworked in the context of a meaningful therapy relationship...
4. Enabling us to become more whole & to live more fully and freely
@abbythompsonmft @JonathanShedler How do you answer? I find it harder and harder to find appropriate words to describe my thought process AND be clear.
1/ "Personality is not about what disorders you have but about who you are. It refers to a person’s characteristic patterns of thought, feeling, behavior, motivation, defense, interpersonal functioning, and ways of experiencing self and others. All people have personalities and
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“...The heart of the word is something like other-country-ized, he said.
Defamiliarization is one of the functions I hope for in good conversation...”
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