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Old Mar 30, 2011, 12:28 AM
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I love to read psychology too.
But at one point I had to stop because reading about therapy, and methods, and others' therapy... was interfering with my own personal therapy. I compared and contrasted. I envied other therapies, other therapists, other therapy patients. It worked against me, it worked to keep me disconnected from my own therapy right there in front of me.
It was a way to avoid looking inward.

After taking a long break from reading psychology and therapy books, I can now read them without looking for magic or something better than what I have. I still like to read them, as I always have, but I feel much less intensity about it.

So that is me.

Of course you want to talk to you therapist about what you read and how it strikes you, what you like about what you're reading, why a certain methodology sounds more appealing to you. It could lead to some great discussion!
Thanks for this!
Seshat