2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Good afternoon dear friends!
I present for your judgment the next, eighth, part of a series of articles on therapeutic work.
Please add your thoughts in the comments! Together we will enrich each other with new knowledge and expand our professional boundaries!
- at the beginning of work, the client is not always able to immediately voice his real problem, he worries about how the therapist will see this part of him. But at the same time he wants to show it. Otherwise, why did he come! It is important to take care of your own safety to the client in the beginning. So, if you have a misunderstanding why he came, it is worth waiting for a while;
- it may be that the client, on the one hand, speaks of his achievements, and on the other hand, speaks of himself as worthless. Here comes the time to work with polarities, the time to connect these polarities. Show that they are. Maybe the client found it difficult to see them together at once. It is important to track such polarities and return them to the client;
- further we clarify what needs, what polarity can serve, what it means in the life of the client, and so on. For example, it is difficult to accept your own fear, then you need to compensate for it with some kind of courage;
- the client can devalue himself if he changes the subject, because, for example, it is scary that someone else, the same psychologist, will devalue. Then self-criticism here acts as a defense mechanism;
- do not get too carried away with unconditional acceptance in work. If we see that the client is doing something destructive in his life, something that does not contribute to his contact with other people, then why is it to support and accept? So it is possible not to advance in work, if you ignore and support what does not improve the client's life;
- if a client says that he knows everything about himself, then this may mean either that he is competing for something with a psychologist, or that he is afraid to hear something about himself from a psychologist. We clarify both, for what and why;
- if the client is often engaged in what he finds in others flaws, and then saves these others, then this may mean, for example, that he is unbearable to find a flaw in himself. This is called projective identification.
I'll stop for now.
See you soon!
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