2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
There is a joke about novice psychologists who believe in their therapeutic genius so much that "they are ready to treat everything that moves, and that does not move, then stir it up and cure it." However, over the years, a more cautious and not so optimistic attitude towards potential opportunities - both their own and those of the client - comes, and more and more sharply the eye catches signs that indicate possible chances of success or failure of therapy.
Why are not all patients ready for psychoanalysis or other depth-oriented work? What are the signs of readiness?
I will try to point out a few points.
- To some, perhaps this condition may seem strange, but still it is important: a person must admit his suffering, he must notice that from time to time he has to deal with negative experiences
- A person understands that the cause of suffering is in himself. In any case, he guesses about it. In addition, he is interested in discovering this reason, finding out why this is happening to him, and having the determination to change something in himself and his life.
- A person is ready to accept the "rules of the game" and understands their importance. He does not object to telling the therapist about himself, nothing, if possible, without hiding and without knowingly telling false information. And he strives to cooperate with the therapist, they have the same vision of the goals and objectives of therapy.
- He has a fair amount of patience, not expecting immediate help from therapy. He is ready for some time to endure frustration, misunderstanding and, perhaps, even some deterioration in his condition.
- The patient must be ready for his resistance and understand its nature. Oddly enough, all people resist the therapeutic effect to one degree or another. This is due to the fact that the usual discomfort for us is preferable to something unfamiliar and unknown. Our neurotic symptoms are our own invention, something that once helped us survive and cope with the pain of existence. Therefore, unconsciously, we would rather choose to continue to endure our sufferings than to "unclench our hands" and let go of the usual mechanisms, because in fact this will mean - jumping empty-handed into the void - it is very scary.
- Negative factors that do not contribute to the successful promotion of joint work can include early transfers - both on the part of the patient and on the part of the therapist. An experienced therapist has fewer such transferences than a beginner, but, nevertheless, they still occur, and not infrequently. Well, God himself ordered the client to have a transfer. What does early transfer mean? Feelings that arose quickly and immediately. It can be both strong sympathy and acute dislike or fear - by and large, there is not much difference. Any feeling that is too strong is usually an obstacle to full cooperation.
- Finally, another disadvantage is the overly "experienced" client. Especially a lover of all kinds of personal growth trainings, various seminars, all kinds of techniques, breathing and bodily practices, etc. On the one hand, they are too "literate" and "already know everything," on the other hand, as a result of all these measures, they have overgrown with another (if one ?!) fence of reinforced concrete protections. It is rather difficult to rescue such a patient from under the armor of protection and "knowledge".
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