Thread: What the Heck is Psychotherapy?
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Old Jun 30, 2011, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by sittingatwatersedge View Post
maybe you could say that psychotherapy is

when a person can relate the most horrible incidents in their life without batting an eye, with no emotion whatsoever
and through the therapeutic process comes to be in touch with those feelings, and relives the horrors, with all their accompanying emotions,
so that on some future day, the same person can acknowledge the same horrible incidents in their life without batting an eye.
But what is it that the therapist does that makes it possible for the client to do this?
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