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This honesty
involves learning how to express openly to another person the fullness of
your immediate inner experience, by setting aside all your characteristic
psychological defenses. And to do that, you have to
come to terms with the emotional pain that caused those defenses to come
into being in the first place. Of course, that pain originated through parental
and other social interactions in your childhood, but, just as you continue
to encounter these same sorts of painful feelings through social interactions
in your adult life, you will also encounter these feelings as a result of
interactions between you and your psychotherapist. This is the essence of
the therapeutic relationship. You confront your pain directly in
psychotherapy, without running from it, so that you can heal it and transform
it.
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