Month: February 2019
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You tricked me!
“My patient declined to explore a problem which previously she adamantly wished to do. I respected her position and asked her to identify a different problem that she did want to work on. She revealed something very close to the topic she had wished to avoid. When asked for a detail she became furious and…
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Why is learning therapy hard?
In supervision, a supervisor lets us know when we made a mistake, so that next time we can make a better intervention that leads to healing. But it hurts to learn we made a mistake. Why? It’s not just because it hurts our self-esteem. When we make a mistake in therapy, we either cause or…