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Originally Posted by Apteryx
Did anything happen to bring that on now, or is it a comment on the discussion?
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I saw that one again and I despise they way they talk and blame the client. I don't hate the person, but I do hate the therapist and their smugness
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Originally Posted by Apteryx
Do you know this or is it your interpretation? As a pragmaticist I contest the assertion that you can know what people always mean when they say a particular thing. It's about context - which in this case includes the personalities of the people involved in the discourse.
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I believe if it were real, there would be a clear, understandable definition.
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Originally Posted by artemis-within
I don't believe that. I think that it is a process, as in, something that you go through step by step to get from where you were to where you want to be so to speak, and I do also very much believe that you get out of it what you put into it.... anybody who goes into therapy and just waits for the therapist to "fix" them is in for a long road. They can teach us HOW to do the work, but they can't do the work FOR us. We have to do the hard work. It is hard. I'm not saying it isn't. But it is SO worth it.  |
If that were true, then the process could be and would be explained to clients.
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Originally Posted by CantExplain
It requires faith to listen to a T for weeks on end when she doesn't seem to be making any sense. And faith doesn't come easily to everyone. Some people are too damaged to even start therapy. God help them!
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Faith in what? That the therapist is not a charlatan? Faith that eventually one will figure out what to do or be dead? Faith that the person who cannot explain what is supposed to be happening knows what they are doing and not just messing with people or just staying there until the person decides they are better or that it would get better without any intervention anyway like with a cold?