Quote:
Originally Posted by skysblue
"A General Theory of Love" pg. 175
"If a patient's emotional mind would support good relationships, he or she would be out having them. Instead a therapist loosens his grip on his own world and drifts, eyes open, into whatever relationship the patient has in mind - even a connection so dark that it touches the worst in him. He has no alternative.
"When he stays outside the other's world, he cannot affect it. [...] He takes up temporary residence in another's world not just to observe but to alter, and, in the end, to overthrow.
"Through the intimacy a limbic exchange affords, therapy becomes the ultimate inside job."
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I saw a Japanese comic book about a "dream consultant". If you are having recurring nightmares, he comes and stays with you and goes into the nightmare and brings it to a happy ending. I saw that a great metaphor for therapy.
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