2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
One of the fundamental "healing factors" of group psychotherapy I. Yalom calls and considers "the suggestion of hope."
Instilling hope and strengthening it is a decisive healing factor in all psychotherapeutic systems (…) Research has shown that the more the patient hopes to be helped, the more effective the therapy. There is a wealth of documented evidence that the effectiveness of treatment is directly related to the patient's hope for healing and his conviction that he will be helped.
Hope is very important not only for group therapy, but also for individual therapy. Re-experiencing painful events, contact with repressed emotionally unbearable material, recalling pain, resentment, humiliation and despair that had to be dissociated, can lead to the client's expectations that therapy is pain, despair and hopelessness. “Should I stir it all up?” - ask people who are afraid to start therapy. The therapist does not need to turn into an optimist with manic defenses about all the horror with which the client is overwhelmed, it is very important to understand and accept that what happened is really terrible, and the client's fears are justified. But the therapist cannot succumb to the client's doubts, fears, or despair; recognition of what happened should not be carried out “with hands down”, which will only increase hopelessness and demoralize a person. In my opinion, the task is to admit the pain and be sincerely horrified at what sometimes happens to people, but at the same time have within yourself the hope of reviving the lost parts and finding a resource for a fuller and happier life. Hope must be shown to the client. The hope emanating from the therapist, coexisting with the understanding that a person will actually have to feel during work what is better not to feel and think about what is better not to think about, is the first stone that will be laid in the foundation of the therapeutic alliance.
Demonstrating my hope does not mean that I promise everything. Due to many reasons, for example, biological, social, age, there is a possibility of early termination of therapy. I do not know how to predict the future, so I cannot guarantee that everything will be successful. But my practice has convinced me that a positive, optimistic outlook on the client and his future is often justified and very useful.
People who have experienced serious life upheavals, even without psychotherapy, over time note favorable changes and a decrease in symptoms, which is often facilitated by their social environment, which acts as a "therapeutic environment". In therapy, the chances of getting rid of excruciating symptoms and painful experiences are increased. Hope is a powerful antidote to the helplessness, discouragement, and despair that are common in the practice of the therapist. Unfortunately, in professional discourse, the question of hope is rarely raised, but hope has great therapeutic value and effect. The impact of the message of hope from the therapist should not be underestimated, but cautious about being optimistic about future therapy.
Hope is what can be opposed to despair.
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