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Originally Posted by JustShakey
I've been thinking about mirroring. I half want to start a thread about it... I was reading about interacting with personality disordered partners - about mirroring rather than absorbing the emotional outburst. I used to do it with stbx - not at first, but after I'd been in therapy a while... It was hard to do, but when I was strong enough to manage it it had a very positive effect. It would calm him down, though he didn't exactly like it. Strange, because often it usually involved very loud and intense anger... It was like I took his toys away and left him with no options or something...
Anyhoo, I was wondering about this type of mirroring in relation to the therapeutic relationship. Toxic and/or abandoning therapeutic relationships in particular. At what point is it too much? I want to start a thread, this stuff really interests me, but I'm afraid it would explode all over the place...
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My observation and belief is that things tend to go down hill fast when people start focussing on various diagnoses of others (personality disorders for example) rather than on the other parts. So if I were going to start such a thread - I would focus on the technique in general and leave out any reference to specific diagnoses/labeling of others.
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